Music: Do You Feel - The Rocket Summer

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Do You FeelThe Rocket Summer

Now, the first time I heard this song it was from a female... friend... of mine a long while ago now. I thought it was kinda effeminate to be honest. It seemed a bit like the type of music most of my gay male friends liked at the time and it really didn't strike me as anything particularly great.

Well, I looked up the lyrics to be clear on them and what I liked about it was the fact that it had a very powerful message behind it. It was more than just some... idk... pop punky, alt-rock with a scene-kid/emo vibe, crap. It was saying something that's, even today, more relevant that I would realize at first.

In the interests of time and the fact that I don't recall the lyrics as well as I do my favourites, which I post usually, I am going to post the entire set of lyrics from LyricFind.com so that you can see the powerful words behind this song.

I'm thinking 'bout other things I heard about today,
All this week and tomorrow.
And how these hands can create some better things, for bettering.
But you see for now I got my own things...
I can't help it, I got too many issues I own...
So I cannot help I am afraid, yeah.
But keep on preachin', preachin' and heal the world...
Lip service makes us look great.
Do you feel the weight of the world singin' sorrow?
Or, to you, is it just not real?
'Cause you got your own things...
Yeah, we all have our things I guess...
I guess my mind wanders off from time to time.
Sometimes I convince myself that all is fine...
In the world it's not mine why should I have to try,
To fix things I didn't create or contrive.
Do you feel the weight of the world singin' sorrow?
Or, to you, is it just not real?
'Cause you got your own things...
Yeah, we all have so many things...
Have the habits had you?
Has it been for long?
Can you feel the souls behind what's going on?
Do you feel the weight of the world singin' sorrow?
Or, to you, is it just not real?
'Cause you got your own things...
Yeah, we all have our things...
Do you feel the weight of the world singin' sorrow?
Or, to you, is it just not real?
'Cause you got your own things...
'Cause we all have so many things...
And I can't get past these things, ohh.

The line that hits me the most is mostly the one about the world singing sorrow and being able to feel that weight.

It's so true and so many are detached and despondent to the tragedies that befall this world and will do little to nothing to change it. It's a travesty on mankind that we allow this to happen, that we let ourselves get so buried and hopeless that we give up on all that we love and care about, to focus on the "now" or the things that are only in the nearest proximity. We have this horrible habit of pushing true injustices aside and accepting that they've happened when we should be outraged and demand and force change to happen. We get so distracted by the things in our lives. The mechanisms we use to distract ourselves and take ourselves away from those tragedies that befall our race daily. We need better. We must demand better. This is the only way in this world. Indifference of those of that are good, will ultimately lead to the downfall of humanity and day to day, it is a struggle. Choose the better path. It's up to us.



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