Not too late for love | Sunday Sung Session #23
Channel: mengtianmusic
Date: 2021-03-21

It's been hard to find words in general this week. What happend in Atlanta, and most recently also in Los Angeles are not the firsts, and sadly I don't expect them to be the last. I'm thinking of all the 3800 hate-related incidents recorded in the US during the pandemic, a rise of 300% of incidents in the UK, 500 in Australia, and the list goes on. The incidents are not simply harassment, many are combined with violence. And I know for our community: Many more incidents go unrecorded. Especially incidents happening to our elders. Because in our culture, we would many times rather not rock the boat and sacrifice our own voices. 

#stopasianhate #snow #healing

As much as the Black Lives Matter movement, what we Asians ask for is not much: We just want a fair chance to live. Equal to anyone else. And not having to fear for our lives due the colour of our skin. That's all. We are individuals with families and loved ones, we are human. So to process all these emotions of rage, anger, sadness, sullenness, yet still not wanting to giving up hope, I'm just covering a song with a title that represents what I feel.

Directly to my cover of "Not too late" by @norahjones: 0:08
Sunday Song Session No. 3 from May 3, 2020 when I also spoke of personal experiences of being asian abroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFU3-l4_fwQ&list=PLbOKg8wcJ_FlXxMrAkspqyWqHwNYTLGDQ&index=20

I encourage you to inform yourselves about the gravity of the situation. To start, just these 2 articles:
- Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/16/asian-americans-hate-incidents-pandemic-study
- Time: https://time.com/5947862/anti-asian-attacks-rising-worldwide/

I do Sunday Song Sessions consisting of cover songs and my own compositions fairly regularly - weekly or bi-weekly depending on schedules. Here is the playlist for all Sunday Song Sessions I've done so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbOKg8wcJ_FlXxMrAkspqyWqHwNYTLGDQ 
Playlist for Cover Songs only: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbOKg8wcJ_FkMt5H4xuXogFffSqP127_k 

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Norah Jones - Not too late

Tell me how you've been
Tell what you've seen
Tell me that you'd like to see me too

'Cause my heart is full of no blood
My cup is full of no love
Couldn't take another sip even if I wanted

But it's not too late
Not too late for love

My lungs are out of air
And yours are holding smoke
And it's been like that for so long

I've seen people try to change
And I know it isn't easy
But nothin' worth the time ever is

And it's not too late, ooh, ooh, ooh
It's not too late for love
For love
For love
For love