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The song 'Tom Sawyer' – what it's about and why I would care to tell you.
Firstly, the chorus chants over and over 'Love Everyday, Love Everyday'. It's simple, generic, and a little cheesy to some. It's purposeful and I'll explain later.
The verses are a melding of my recollections of a more often than not carefree childhood and the river stories of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (books I read heaps of times as a kid) and a sort of nod to Twains anti-slavery themes.
I was blessed to grow up in places like Tonga, Fiji, Hawaii and New Zealand (note the use of ukeleles to reflect that).
Innocence is precious. To give it away is ultimately the prerogative of the person who holds it. Consequences will come (sooner or later) that are appropriate to the action.
NOBODY has a right to TAKE from a child what should be RIGHTS – not privileges but RIGHTS.
A child has a right to be sitting at home at night knowing that they are loved and not huddled in a dark corner after a harsh day of dirty, heavy, back-breaking labour, their young skin bleeding from the masters whip.
A child has a right to be tucked in at night and kissed on the forehead and not sitting on the end of a perverted mans bed having just submitted to his vile, despicable demands.
A child has a right to play kiss-chasey and bulrush in the schoolyard with friends and not taking up arms as dispensable soldiers in God-forsaken wars.
'Love Every Day'
What a privileged childhood I had. I was raised by loving parents in a loving environment. We traveled for work (before the age of 16, the longest I lived in 1 home was about 2 years I think) and we had many ups and downs but I've always felt that my childhood was one that every child should have the rights to. Maria can lay claim to the same. Her family escaped a war-torn Nicaragua when her Dad's life was in threat, and her family is a kind of Fijian/Latino twisted version of the Brady Bunch. Hers was a roller coaster of an upbringing at times but she knows that no matter the difficulties, she was part of a good and caring family that would never leave her out in the cold.
'Love Every Day' is a general statement I dream every child could say with conviction.
Is Slavery Dead?
8.4 million children say No. They know because they live it.
A life without love is no life at all.
Firstly, the chorus chants over and over 'Love Everyday, Love Everyday'. It's simple, generic, and a little cheesy to some. It's purposeful and I'll explain later.
The verses are a melding of my recollections of a more often than not carefree childhood and the river stories of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (books I read heaps of times as a kid) and a sort of nod to Twains anti-slavery themes.
I was blessed to grow up in places like Tonga, Fiji, Hawaii and New Zealand (note the use of ukeleles to reflect that).
Innocence is precious. To give it away is ultimately the prerogative of the person who holds it. Consequences will come (sooner or later) that are appropriate to the action.
NOBODY has a right to TAKE from a child what should be RIGHTS – not privileges but RIGHTS.
A child has a right to be sitting at home at night knowing that they are loved and not huddled in a dark corner after a harsh day of dirty, heavy, back-breaking labour, their young skin bleeding from the masters whip.
A child has a right to be tucked in at night and kissed on the forehead and not sitting on the end of a perverted mans bed having just submitted to his vile, despicable demands.
A child has a right to play kiss-chasey and bulrush in the schoolyard with friends and not taking up arms as dispensable soldiers in God-forsaken wars.
'Love Every Day'
What a privileged childhood I had. I was raised by loving parents in a loving environment. We traveled for work (before the age of 16, the longest I lived in 1 home was about 2 years I think) and we had many ups and downs but I've always felt that my childhood was one that every child should have the rights to. Maria can lay claim to the same. Her family escaped a war-torn Nicaragua when her Dad's life was in threat, and her family is a kind of Fijian/Latino twisted version of the Brady Bunch. Hers was a roller coaster of an upbringing at times but she knows that no matter the difficulties, she was part of a good and caring family that would never leave her out in the cold.
'Love Every Day' is a general statement I dream every child could say with conviction.
Is Slavery Dead?
8.4 million children say No. They know because they live it.
A life without love is no life at all.
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