If Everyone Cared

Today´s Song of the Day fits perfectly with how I feel about what I´m currently studying.

Ever heard of Túpac? No, not the rapper, the guy whose name he took. Túpac Amaru was the last Inca. Then, two hundred years later, Túpac Amaru II enters the scene. How he´s connected by blood to the last Incan ruler is complicated, but he basically decides to lead a rebellion, ¨The Great Rebellion¨, against the ruling Spanish group in Peru in the late 18th century. He has some cool ideas, but he, like most of the world, fought violence and oppression with the same. Violence with violence.

When will that EVER solve ANYTHING?

Ultimately, the story has a gruesome ending...Túpac Amaru II, his wife, sons and other close followers are publically hanged, drawn and quartered. The execution lasted almost all day. It was refered to as a ¨show¨. (shiver) Today, many Peruvians revere Túpac Amaru and admire his brave efforts to overthrow the Spanish. A lot of that is because the class divide still falls down the line of Spanish vs. Indian...400 and some years after that line was first drawn by the original Spanish invaders! I can´t quite wrap my mind around a militant, violent HERO, but whatever floats their boat. I´d rather go the way this song recommends...again, read the lyrics! Peace!



If Everyone Cared lyrics

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died

And I'm singing Amen

Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
(I'm alive)

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
When nobody died...