This song is dedicated to all of those whose countries, cultures, and lives have been obliterated by totalitarian states--especially those who have lost loved ones to government violence. Lyrics below.
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I had an artistic mentor who often said an artist should never explain her art, and I basically agree. But it's crucial for me to frame these songs as they are intended in my #SocialismSongs series, because that is how these songs were birthed. While I absolutely believe and experience that there is often deeper meaning than is originally intended in artistic works (a fascinating mystery most artists will readily concede), I reject the postmodern modality that a song "can mean whatever you want it to mean." No. Artists have intended meanings, and we should want to find them out.
I did not want these songs misunderstood, and so without overly explaining, I am trying to properly contextualize. You can watch the whole #SocialismSongs series here:
Many these days are asking big questions right now with the coronavirus about government control, far-out conspiracies such as qanon, what's going on with all of the quarantining, etc. Honestly, there is so much it's hard to even begin to process what's true, especially as the media becomes increasingly less reliable and more like Soviet propaganda. But what's crazy to me is how numb to the bigger questions or unaware so many still are.
My goal is simply to bring awareness to the realities of human evil and malice, and the authentic history of totalitarian states which many of us know only very little about due to the horrendous lack of teaching in our schools. It is not helpful to be naive. We don't need to live in fear, but we can't be naive.
Marxism should be utterly, roundly dismissed by anyone of good will, in any form. Its death tool, upwards of 100 million, should be enough to say it is rotten at its core rather than "misapplied."
I am honest that I approach all of these things as a Catholic and a conservative, but I am not an ideologue or someone with an agenda. These songs spontaneously arose from my human experience and deep thinking about these serious realities. I have read extensively and know many who have suffered under these corrupt systems. My goal, more than anything, is to open up your mind to the capacity for evil in our world and that there truly are malicious people seeking vehemently to destroy what so many of us hold dear. That reality is incontestable if you know even small amounts of real history from the last century.
This is part of an ongoing "song theme" series I'll be doing throughout 2020 with regular YouTube commentary. I'll be sharing the gamut from politics, culture, and art, to love, injustice, and true humanity.
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Atlantis
Tell you a story ‘bout an land long forgotten
Lost in the oceans of time
Songs of antique glory and greatness
Washed away by nervous haste and plight
But if you turn your ear, if you open up your ear
You can still hear their whispers screaming:
"Atlantis is falling under! (Atlantis is falling under!)
Sound the song of thunder! (Sound the song of thunder!)"
The sadness spread like thick, liquid concrete
over the whole town; Left no sign of life
Atlantis hidden under waves of presumption
And money and power and pride
If you listen close, if you listen real, real close
You can still hear their silence screaming:
"Atlantis is falling under! (Atlantis is falling under!)
Sound the song of thunder! (Sound the song of thunder!)"
Oh, Atlantis..
What’s a wee little suffering for glory?
Calamity’s remembered for all time
When there ain’t no food, there ain’t no time for freedom anyway
Yeah, that’s just what Atlantis cried (Ohh, Atlantis)
Oh, Atlantis
Money-rollin’, mind-controllin', war-explodin', self-implodin' lies
Atlantis is falling under!
Copyright, Kay Clarity 2020, "Young Skin: Songs & Poems of Emergence, 2020-2022."