We’ll be together, with a roof right over our heads. I want to love you, every day and every night. He questions if what he's feeling for this woman is love, then goes on to sing, “I want to love you and treat you right. I mean, this song is so romantic and charming. We can’t deny the fact Marley is a lady’s man and knows the way to a lady’s heart. It reassured me that everything will be alright and still does. In this song he is reassuring a woman that everything will be okay and trying to remind her of the good times, as he says, “o little darlin’, don’t shed no tears no woman no cry.” I guess this is why I was so emotional towards this song. This song looks like it reflects on a personal experience of Marley’s according to Rolling Stone magazine, the “Government yard in Trench Town” refers to the Jamaican public-sector housing where Marley lived in the late ‘50s. The lyrics of this song were originally written by Vincent Ford who helped Marley when he was very poor and owned a soup kitchen in Kingston. I felt as if I was being consoled and comforted by Marley himself. I know, I cried when the song says, “No woman, no cry”-it’s ironic. It came on, I took a moment to listen, and I almost started crying. Really, how cool is that? The first time I heard this song, I was on my bed doing some homework. This was Marley’s first hit when he sang it live at the Lyceum Theatre in London. I love how this song gives us that sense of community and shows us how comforting and beautiful it is to rejoice together as one. This song takes you to a good time in your life, or even makes you imagine one. You feel the excitement of each lyric in your bones. It's amazing how the soft melodic tunes give you such energy and thrill. I always envision myself on stage as one of Bob Marley’s female Singers in a bar-him playing his guitar while everyone starts to do a choreographed dance that wasn’t planned-like in the musicals. This is the kind of song you just never want to stop dancing to. He meant burnin’ the illusion that black people are a threat to society and mankind. The chorus of this song goes on to talk about how we are going to be “Burnin’ and a-looting Tonight, burnin’ all pollution tonight, burnin’ all illusion tonight.” Bob Marley agreed with protesting, standing for what is right, and also looting, but it meant more to him than just “burnin and looting.” It meant the burning of racism, discrimination, and brutality-that pollution. This is what he does-he takes our struggles, our past, his soul, and he delivers art. The boss he is referring to is not a human being, but freedom. He then goes on to sing, “How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss?” which speaks to what African Americans had to endure during the shipments of slavery and how long it took for them before they could be free. He is surrounded with faces he could not recognize, “all dressed in uniforms of brutality.” Bob Marley’s choice of words here is no mistake or coincidence, but simply emphasizing the abuse of power used by the police. This song talks about how Bob Marley wakes up in a curfew and finds out he's been imprisoned with his fellow friends. This was the opening song in the French movie La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, which explores the hatred, racism, and discrimination in a lower-class Paris society. This song is one of my all-time favorites. The purpose of this article is to shine a light on the wonderful works of such soulful and deeply connected artists, and to breakdown what each song dignifies and why it is celebrated today in different parts of the world. He tells us that we are not alone, and we are all one. Bob Marley sang truth through his music, and he spoke about the political and social problems in society then-problems that we are still faced with today-which is why one still resonates with his music. Most of the group members died after Bob Marley’s death in 1981, leaving only Bunny Wailer and Beverly Kelso. In 1963, Bob Marley and his friends formed one of the most renowned and popular reggae groups known to this day, The Wailing Wailers. It’s been almost 40 years since the reggae legend Bob Marley died, but his music continues to live within us.
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