After I turn off my alarm clock and I get up of bed, get my clothes ready to get in the shower and start my day, a tune shows up into my head that will make my thoughts spin.
I like this song, I used to know the lyrics now I just remember some words. The band was one of my favorite ones, I loved their albums until the original alignment separated, today this band it’s just a memory of my times as a teen when I was trying to learn how to play the guitar so that I can be a rock star like them.
As I was in the shower singing this song I noticed – maybe for the first time – what was what they were singing about and this verse called my attention “I don’t need your civil war, It feeds the rich while it buries the poor” . What an interesting statement.
This band was declaring that they were not participating in this “civil war” because it feeds the rich and kills the poor. What I found appealing in my mind was that this sentence came from a band that at the time of this song release was one of the most influential powerful and “rich” rock and roll bands in history. They in some way were the rich and this civil war was feeding them, they were part of the machine that they were trying to come against. Then this second thought come to my mind, to reject this fame, money and glory that they were experiencing, to identify themselves with the poor, with the ones suffering, they had to live a life of debauchery, they had to spend their energies rejecting the power of the rich so that they can have power with the people, with the poor, so they did most, of their members were on some kind of rehab program.
Once I finished my shower I decided to blog about this new discovery, because this is a treasure that I have found that we reject our believes by the way we behave.
Now I wonder, how can I stay true to myself when I face a situation that will compromise my core believes?
what would you behave?
By the way this a video of the song and the band I was talking about .
