This Is Not My World 1992  Jim Shepard
Channel: Summerfall
Date: 2013-09-18

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 Well, we have certainly stuck it to the children.
Condescended the youth into effective consumers 
While alienating them from the political process that leads to actionable change.

The movement for social change, in our late system, is tragically grey,
With fresh Summerfall Winds gathering speed,

Testing the metal of tenuous yellow leaves now red with rage.  
A last plea, the very breath taken away by Corona,
Into silences of fading memory.

Fresh in the wake of destruction, the young are rising.
Not in political action, but with organic nature.
Standing, blinking, gathering.

                                    Jim
                                    ~ . ~

note: this is not my world music video was shot around 1992, in Anchorage, Alaska.


Lyrics:


This is not my world, crowds of homeless people burning bridges down.
This is not my world, elementary justice lies in ashes on the ground.
Can't you hear the sound?
Listen close your mother's crying 

This is not my world.


This is not my world, this war weary killing ground soaked with blood.
Red river - holy water
This is not my world.


Deep within the heart of every woman child and man,
There lies the other world we must try to understand.
There ain't no color in the world of love, ain't no angry hand,
So pardon me if I turn away.
This is not my world.


This is not my world
Pastels bleeding from the T.V. in my living room
Turn it off - it goes away.
This is not my world
This is not my world
This is not my world.


                                              ~ . ~