Get up, Stand Up!

[mnaz]

Preacherman don't tell me,
heaven is under the earth.
I know that you don't know
what life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold,
'n half the story has never been told,
so now you see the light, eh!
You got to stand up for your rights,
come on!

Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up.... don't give up the fight.

Most people think,
great God will come from the sky...
take away everything,
and make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
you will look for yours on earth,
and now you see the light,
you stand up for your rights,
Jah!

Get up, stand up... stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up... don't give up the fight.

We sick and tired of-a your ism-skism game,
dyin' 'n goin' to heaven in-a Jesus name.
We know when we understand,
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
but you can't fool all the people all the time,
so now we see the light,
we gonna stand up for our rights,

so you better
Get up, stand up... stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up... don't give up the fight.
-----life is your right-----
Get up, stand up... stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up... don't give up the fight.....

words by Bob Marley and the Wailers, circa 1973...

Yeah, I know.... should have rewritten the thing,
you know... updated it and all.... Not sure what I could have added
though.

[stilltrucking]

Men see their dreams and aspiration-a
Crumble in front of their face,
And all of their wicked intention
To destroy the human race.

Bob Marley

Alas Babylon
Is that what it will take
Does the roof have to come crashing down
Do we need to craw out from under the ruins.

I am going with the faith of a heretic. I know what is a stake. And I get scared sometimes cause even though I don't believe much of what I hear what those preachers say, I have my doubts sometimes and think maybe they are right. But so far I have been able to find the strength to resist their threats. Only my dying will tell. What is the worse thing that can happen to me if I am wrong. I guess I will burn in hell. According to Dante there is no sleep in hell.

I was down and out
I was down on my knees
Praying to Jesus for just one nights sleep
Been a long time since that night

Sometimes I lean on Jesus
Other times I lean on Nietzsche
Lately I been trying to make a quantum leap with Kierkegaard
And Buddha lights a lamp unto myself
What ever gets me through the night

We got preachers on TV that are the scum of the earth
Many will be in San Antonio this weekend for a Honor Israel Night.
One Rabbi in town don't want nothing to do with Christian Zionism
Bless him, bless him. He also said that many Jews find it repugnant. But the Israeli government finds them useful.

I have met only one preacher that I have any respect for.
That was thirty years ago at the Union Gospel Mission in Nashville TN

What keeps most men in "Christian" countries from being heretics in this sense is that they do not publicly avow their disbelief: it is in better taste to be casual about lost beliefs, and a note of wistfulness generally ensures forgiveness. Obstinacy is rare. Millions do not even know that they deny essential Christian doctrines: they have never bothered to find out what the essential doctrines are. In extenuation they may plead that the evasiveness and the multiplicity of churches create a difficulty; but to be deterred by this when one's eternal destiny is said to be at stake bespeaks a glaring lack of seriousness.
... Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic

late night ramble
I just want to lay down and bleed
Get up in the morning and
Fight them tomorrow.

[mnaz]

... not sure why I posted Marley lyrics.... just that I was trying to get out another late-nite power-to-the-people jam, 'coz I'm like a "broken record" that way lately, and this song came to me.... I hadn't thought about this song in years....

One thing I love about Rasta.... the exhortation to receive the blessing now, and not put it all on some distant future place. Then again, Rasta obsesses over its own "Zion".... just another religion inside the blessed ganja cloud after all.... Where is Zion? It has to be somewhere near. It's advertised everywhere....

Maybe I should have posted this to the music board.... sorry about that. Caught up in a "moment", I guess.....

[stilltrucking]

Rastafarianism.
Another ism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement

the exhortation to receive the blessing now, and not put it all on some distant future place.

I like rasta too.
But I love the blues for the same reason.
Been 34 years since I heard Fathers and Sons on The Muddy Waters album Cosmic Joy Scout Jamboree. I can hardly remember anything except the feeling. Oh what a feeling.

This is the only cut from the album I could find.

http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/45860 ... %20Working

This is another one, I think
http://www.radioblogclub.com/open/96058 ... y%20Waters

I got no problem with Israel. I believe it has just as much right to exist as any other nation state. I believe the Jews got just as much right to be there as Europeans have to be here. I am not an anti-Zionist. I am just not a Zionist.

Just a

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewish ness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ...


And every Jew, except for the secular, corrupt, pluralistic and skeptically minded Nathan, believes it essential that every Jew believe the same as every other Jew, achieve the solidarity of the Wailing Wall.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... gewanted=4


I am sorry for every post I make to any board here. Just a compulsion.

"Domini Domini, we are all cyber addicts now."DP

[stilltrucking]

This board is Doreen's pride and joy, her favorite I think. She will do the right thing if it needs to be moved to another board. It would not hurt my feelings. How about you?

[mnaz]

of course not....

and reggae is like the "backward blues".... i've heard it called that... forget where or who... seems about right... especially that wayward dub stuff...

[Arcadia]

nice lyrics, but most of all great rythm!.
the first reggae songs I ever listened to were the Sumo ones, long after that I discovered Marley but I only understood the titles of the songs.