Story Behind The Song

As a child I believe the Columbia University protest was the last significant protest I was at...I was very young and impressed by the magnitude of it all...fast paced speech making hippie loving culture that had exploded in basically my backyard...so to NYC speak... The excitement and futility of it all left me confused but it stayed with me. Many years later as a composer, I though of that same innocent, still shiny, futility of it all because decades later...nothing had really changed and the protest and the reasons remain if not the same...very close and I wrote 'All of our lives' as a reminder or a question of what are we doing?...what's the definition of insanity?

Song Description

As a child I believe the Columbia University protest was the last significant protest I was at...I was very young and impressed by the magnitude of it all...fast paced speech making hippie loving culture that had exploded in basically my backyard...so to NYC speak... The excitement and futility of it all left me confused but it stayed with me. Many years later as a composer, I though of that same innocent, still shiny, futility of it all because decades later...nothing had really changed and the protest and the reasons remain if not the same...very close and I wrote 'All of our lives' as a reminder or a question of what are we doing?...what's the definition of insanity?

Lyrics

INSTRUMENTAL UNTIL LAST PORTION OF SONG 2:10 WHERE CHOIR
"Why do we always pray after we've broken?'
"Can't we start again like were one race?"