Esperanza Spalding & American Music Program
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding
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Esperanza Spalding & American Music Program
Esperanza Spalding
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Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding & American Music Program
Esperanza Spalding
Spalding tackles the trivial approach to the loss of civilian lives in the Middle East, at the hands of the American military through drone strikes. She questions the sense of it all and whether we are all complicit through our robotic consumption of headlines. Nevermind our lack of verbal disgust.
On the neon news
They won't be talking about his life
Flowers still unfolding when he had to fly
Toward, toward God
May this war end
Insha'Allah, he knelt to pray
When a dusty troop misjudged
And blew him away
Strangers
Same God
There were faceless numbers
In the headlines we've all read
Drone strike leaves thirteen civilians dead
Hold that thought
My God
Maybe our heart is seized with passing pity for the death
And vague suspicions creep into your head
Am I part of war?
And what is God for?
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Vague Suspicions was written by Esperanza Spalding.
Vague Suspicions was produced by Esperanza Spalding.
Esperanza Spalding released Vague Suspicions on Tue Mar 20 2012.