I have only recently discovered Ani's music. What a great songwriter. And what a great poet! I literally got tears in my eyes just from reading the poem. And then I found the MP3 on the Righteous Babe web site...stunning. The way she delivers it. The way the crowd responds...just stunning.
I think the meaning is pretty clear, so I won't go into that. I'll just say I agree with Ani one hundred percent. Don't know if this sounds a bit silly, but I, and I'm sure a lot of other people living outside the United States sometimes get pretty damn scared when we see the most powerful nation in the world abusing its power the ways it has. At times it seems the USA is all about the military-industrial complex.
But of course that's not the whole pictrue. Of course there are Americans 'fighting the good fight' against militarism, greed, injustice, intolerance, overuse of natural resources and so on. We need poems like these and people like Ani to remind us that in addition to being a big country, The United States and its people could and can also be great.
I have only recently discovered Ani's music. What a great songwriter. And what a great poet! I literally got tears in my eyes just from reading the poem. And then I found the MP3 on the Righteous Babe web site...stunning. The way she delivers it. The way the crowd responds...just stunning.
I think the meaning is pretty clear, so I won't go into that. I'll just say I agree with Ani one hundred percent. Don't know if this sounds a bit silly, but I, and I'm sure a lot of other people living outside the United States sometimes get pretty damn scared when we see the most powerful nation in the world abusing its power the ways it has. At times it seems the USA is all about the military-industrial complex.
But of course that's not the whole pictrue. Of course there are Americans 'fighting the good fight' against militarism, greed, injustice, intolerance, overuse of natural resources and so on. We need poems like these and people like Ani to remind us that in addition to being a big country, The United States and its people could and can also be great.
Sorry. Got a bit carried away there :)