Musical Worldview: Wilco, 'Jesus, Etc.'
“Our love
Our love
Our love is all we have
Our love
Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun”
Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "All You Fascists"
“I'm gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose.
All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
You're bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!
People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching âcross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!
I'm going into this battle
And take my union gun
We'll end this world of slavery
Before this battle's won
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!”
Musical Worldview: Jeff Tweedy, "Even I Can See"
“If I may have your attention please
I’ll tell you about my wife
and what she means to me
How fiercely she believes what she believes
I laugh and I cry
I live and I die
By her side
From time to time she puts her hand in mine
Holds me like a sharp shiny key
I was never one who needed to believe
In a god hard to find
But I found by her side
There’s a god
Even I can see
They say no work of art is ever done
Carved in bark or yet to come
Rivers run low and flow with only sky
Even gods have to die
But once in a while
There’s a god
Even I can see”
Musical Worldview: Jeff Tweedy, "Love is the King"
“Love is the King”
Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Jesus Christ For President"
“Let's have Christ our president
Let us have him for our king
Cast your vote for the carpenter
That they call the Nazarene
The only way
We could ever beat
These crooked politician men
Is to cast the moneychangers
Out of the temple
Put the carpenter in
Oh it's Jesus Christ our president
God above our king
With a job and pension for young and old
We will make hallelujah ring
Every year we waste enough
To feed the ones who starve
We build our civilization up
And we shoot it down with wars
But with the carpenter
On the seat
Way up in the capitol town
The USA
Be on the way
Prosperity bound”
Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "Blood Of The Lamb"
“I am washed, yes I'm washed
I am washed in the blood
I'm all washed in the blood of the lamb
I'm all clean I'm all spotless
I'm all pure like the snow
I'm all washed in the blood of the lamb”
Musical Worldview Project Playlist 01
As the Musical Worldview Project (finding wisdom in lyrics) hits 100 entries, what better way to celebrate than an hour-long playlist of hand-picked Holiday At The Sea Musical Worldview Project family favorites.
Sit back, relax, and let the music take your mind (and encourage you to think about what kind of world you’d like to see and what kind of person you’d like to become to make that world a reality).
We’re all in this together.
Keep on keepin’ on.
Playlist (with links to each song’s original appearance in the Musical Worldview Project, including the lyrics that prompted the song’s inclusion):
Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Love Is Everywhere (Beware)"
“So many things I do
I can't explain to you
Right now, right now
Love is everywhere
Right now, I'm frightened how
Love is here, beware”
Musical Worldview: Wilco, "One and a Half Stars"
“There is no mother like pain”
Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Everyone Hides"
“If you're telling yourself a story
Where the secrets twist like vines
And you know where the bodies are buried
But you can't remember where you buried the mines”
Musical Worldview: Wilco, "White Wooden Cross"
“Tell me no lies
Tell me no lies
Is it stranger to live?
Is it stranger to die?
What would I do?
What would I do?
If a white wooden cross meant that I'd lost you”
Musical Worldview: Wilco, "Before Us"
“I remember when wars would end
Remember when wars would end?
Now when something's dead
Now when something's dead
We try to kill it again.”
Musical Worldview: True Love Will Find You in the End
Sad news today about Daniel Johnston.
Here’s Wilco covering “True Love Will Find You in the End” at KEXP.
“True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
'Cause true love is searching too”