Thread: Music: Cutting Edge and What You Are Listening To?

This song was "cutting edge" back in 1972... there was a made-for-TV film with the same title that I watched about a million times when I was in elementary school (circa 1979-1982):



Here are the lyrics:
...

There's a land that I see
Where the children are free
And I say it ain't far
To this land from where we are
Take my hand, come with me,
Where the children are free
Come with me, take my hand, and we'll live...

In a land where the river runs free
In a land through the green country
In a land to a shining sea
And you and me are free to be you and me

I see a land bright and clear
And the time's comin' near
When we'll live in this land,
You and me, hand in hand
Take my hand, come along,
Lend your voice to my song
Come along, take my hand, sing a song...

For a land where the river runs free
For a land through the green country
For a land to a shining sea
For a land where the horses run free
And you and me are free to be you and me

Every boy in this land
Grows to be his own man
In this land, every girl
Grows to be her own woman
Take my hand, come with me
Where the children are free
Come with me, take my hand, and we'll run...

To a land where the river runs free
To a land through the green country
To a land to a shining sea
To a land where the horses run free
To a land where the children are free
And you and me are free to be
And you and me are free to be
And you and me are free to be you and me

The general theme of Free to Be... You and Me was to encourage children to reject gender/sex stereotypes -- that men don't cry and shouldn't be ballet dancers, that women can't be astronauts or soldiers, etc. (The movie also talked a little bit about racism and class differences, but mostly it was about gender roles.)

Lampada, thanks for the post about "They Don't Care About Us" I looked it up and the backstory is very interesting.

So I saw on tv today the trailer for the new Winnie the Pooh movie and they are using a song that I just adored and have both the US and UK versions. I can't believe they are using it though as it makes the trailer very sad...



Here is the full song with lyrics: Keane "Somewhere Only We Know"

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Lampada, thanks for the post about "They Don't Care About Us" I looked it up and the backstory is very interesting. ...

Yeah, it's impressive.
And the guy in the front is Travis Payne.


"In January 2010, Payne embarked on a peace tour and arranged a surprise visit to the Cebu province of the Philippines to work with the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security that is also featured in the Michael Jackson Opus. Famous for their "Thriller" which received 300,000 views per day at its peak, the video has received over 37 million reported views and is considered one of the most viral videos viewed on the internet. Payne along with "This Is It" dancers Daniel Celebre (aka Da FunkyMystic) and Dres Reid taught over 1500 dancing inmates to perform "The Drill" as part of the song "They Don't Care About Us" and was video taped to coincide with the "This Is It" DVD & Blu-ray release on January 25, 2010. The clip went live on YouTube, Yahoo and TMZ and immediately captured more than 3 million views within 1 week of its release online.".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Payne

Not a very widely known band, but I really like the singer's vocals.



Lyrics:

(Note: She swallows a lot of words and endings, but for the most part these lyrics should be pretty accurate based on listening to the studio track and two different live versions, although she does change the words a bit in different versions). If English isn't your first language, might make it fun to try and listen first and then check the lyrics if you're unsure.

Don't drink when you're tired
just watch those gems
they catch everything
like the light.

Oh what would become,
if we never moved
just lost and loose
like the light.

Heeey
as she keeps you
and she leaves you
you wonder how we could ever get back
why would we
so close to
stay inside
scared, locked
to never come out.

Don't drink when you're tired
just watch those gems
they catch everything
like the light.

Oh what would become,
if we never moved
just lost and loose
like the light.

Heeey
as she keeps you
and she leaves you
you wonder how we would ever get back
why would we
so close to
stay inside
scared, locked
to never come out

We never make any money
why would we try
ooooh
bear us away on a wing
on a wing....

Why?
As she keeps you
and she leaves you
you wonder how we could ever get back
why would we
so close to
stay inside
scared, locked
to never come out.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

This song was "cutting edge" back in 1972... there was a made-for-TV film with the same title that I watched about a million times when I was in elementary school (circa 1979-1982):

Oh wow... I haven't seen or heard this in a long time. It seems like we had a lesson series on this and there were puppets or something involved. Talk about a trip back in time!