Grateful For Music Challenge Day 20

Song: Be Not Always

Artist: The Jacksons

Don't have a lot of time to put a post up so I had to choose something random and quick to share. This song is simple but the message is profound. It's from the Jackson's Victory album and has a shockingly different vibe from everything else on the album. It's really, really beautiful, tender and also a little solemn. It's a cry for peace and that the cycles of war, poverty, discrimination, hate, etc. will "be not always." 🙏 It's a perfect, pleading, "prayer-like" song that always feels so fitting this time of year.

Always

Be not always

And if always

Bow our heads in shame

Always

Please be not always

And if always

Bow our heads in blame

'Cause time has made promises

Just promises

Faces

Did you see their faces?

Did they touch you?

Have you felt such pain?

To have nothing

To dream something

Then lose hoping

Is not life but lame?

But time has made promises

Just promises

Mothers cry, babies die

Helplessly in arms

While rockets fly and research lies

In progress to become

But what of men of flesh and blood?

We turn our backs on life

How can we claim to stand for peace

When the race is armed in strife

Destroying life?

Always

Please be not always

But if always

Bow our heads in shame

Always

Please, please be not always

'Cause if always

Bow our heads in blame

'Cause time, time has made promises

Death promises