My favorite song of the week.Heard this song about a month ago in the series finale of “The Unit”.Download it straight away but never had the chance to really hear the song until a couple of day ago.
The melody attracts me the most.Recently I am pretty addicted to the humming+simple guitar+haunting type of melody.The melody kept on playing in my minds,taunting me to play the same song over and over again.The lyrics is quite good too although I don’t really understand the whole song.Maybe I just love the arrangement of the words…
My favorite part is the ending lyrics:
Tell me somethin'
What are yah livin' for?
Tell me boy
What are you livin' for?
Tell me somethin'
What are yah livin' for?
Tell me, tell me
What are you livin' for?
BTW,the singer Sonya Kitchell is at my age and wow she could write and sing something so good!!!
The lyrics for Soldier Lament:
He fight and he pray
He love and he bleed
To know satisfaction was not his need
And when he walks, stands tall as he can
For he's a man, yeah he's a man
And when he crumbles, resolve to the ground
Like burnt bits of paper, life flutters round
All eyes turn away, no one wants to see
A man who has lost, in the fight to be free
For we've been out runnin' for all of our lives
No chance, and stop, and we'd surely lose sight
In the back of his mind is a smiling face
The one who said, "yah know, it's no race"
The one that said, "you got time to breathe"
Cuz' child you're born, we're all born free
In the back of he mind is the back of a room
So dust enshrouded, and no dust broom
Stands a chance to clear the cobwebs away
So live in the back, in the dark it'll stay
And we've been out runnin' for all of our lives
No chance, and stop, and we'd surely lose sight
Tell me somethin'
What are yah livin' for?
Tell me boy
What are you livin' for?
Tell me somethin'
What are yah livin' for?
Tell me, tell me
What are you livin' for?
The live performance by Sonya Kitchell:
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