Its funny where you get your inspiration at times. I’ve heard stories about how when someone has a near death experience and reflect on the word in a new whole new light. Well my inspiration came while sitting and playing the new add on to Grand Theft Auto. While playing I was tuning in the different radio stations they have listed. With the variety that I had I decided to listen to the station “Tuff Gong”. Than out of nowhere came this Bob Marley song which just touched my soul. The name of the song was “So much trouble in the World.” This as my Jamaican brothers would say is “a wicked chune (tune)”
There I am sitting going around shooting at other guys and the melody put me in a trance and one point it picked up a line “We the street people talkin’, Yeah, we the people strugglin’.” And it the song felt spoke to me about everything that was going on. Everywhere we go from its not hard to see the effect of the recession we are facing today. I use to feel like what happened in Washington didn’t really effect me, and the was usually the feeling of others around me. “The problem in Washington was for the rich, not me.”
And now I watch around as we all struggle in the same from the same issues. The recession that we face hasn’t placed itself in one area, but all communities are affected. Small mom and pop stores which held as the brand of the communities are now struggling or have vanished. Cities like Flint and Detroit Michigan are missing the their identities. The are no longer known for the car factory booming that the once were, but as on of top the cities facing unemployment at higher than the nation average.
There’s also a part in the song to me made me feel like Bob Marley was pretty much telling us why issues like this happen in the world. He sang “You see men sailing on their ego trip, Blast off on their spaceship, Million miles from reality: No care for you, no care for me.” The significance of this line is that it says to me people with higher power our going on doing what they want, and act as if they we the people are beneath them. Their greed has no consideration of what may happen to the common man or woman.
This song was listed on Bob Marley album “Survival” released in 1979. From reading the lyrics and listening to this fine chune, I see that this a repeated cycle that even when we get out of it there will be another one. Who knew a song written about the struggle of the 70’s would still apply to todays world.
The question I ask and will continue to wonder is, why can’t some of the rich humble themselves instead of let their ego and greed lead to the downfall of the ones under them? At the end of the day it’s the ones who are at the bottom of the food chain who makes it possible for the one on top to be able to live well as they do.
