| Amos Lee – Scared Money Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Written as an open letter to Jacobin Magazine and other intellectual journal editors, this song speaks back in the voice of the anonymous, missing leader(s) of the now failed Occupy Wall Street Movement. Jacobin Magazine, (or Jack), enjoyed the attention it received its ongoing criticism that the Occupy Wall Street Movement was without leadership. Unable to answer back, here is the obvious explanation. Fear for their and their families' lives. Peaceful movement and civil rights leaders from Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy were killed for appearing as peaceful leaders. Conspiracy theories aside, even spiritual leaders devoted entirely to helping the powerless and the exploited must be surrounded by body guards to walk down the street. Consumer advocates and whistle blowers have hits put out on them, their are families threatened. Why the intellectual journalists were unable to understand this seeming obvious phenomenon of "killing the leader" is unclear. Instead of noticing or having concern for the leaders safety, they reduced the "We Are the 99%" in print to drum circles and carnival gatherings. The leaders would have been run out of town. Actual lives are at stake. Jacobin Magazine also criticized the movements' use of slogans that referred to "Taking down the 1%", as not being "peaceful". There is nothing peaceful about what happens to move people to spend their lives in protest. They are fatally putting themselves in harms way to make progressive change. Without them generations of their family and the public suffers. History has shown that killing the peaceful leader, the whistle blowers and even consumer advocates isn't beyond the means or morals those in power. Seems like it should've been obvious to the powerful intellectuals at Jack Magazine. |
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| Amos Lee – Low Down Life Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This song reminds me of a job I had when I was a teen. The lady that owned the big farm across the field hired me to dig through piles and piles of manure in order to find the jewels her husband had thrown into the cattle troughs. She had about a hundred cows. He got mad at her and dumped her entire jewelry box into the troughs. Some stuff was from her great great grandmother's time. I'd come home covered in muck and smelling really bad. Couldn't quit til I found every piece or I wouldn't get paid a bonus. My granddad was nice enough to give me an old metal detector he bought a pawn shop. Listening to this song makes me remember what he said about not needing to get covered in it. Not every cow pie was going to be holding jewels, but something about the people in this song says they were worth something, but it was tough to see covered in all the muck. Sad stuff. | |
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