Let Freedom Ring. This song is dedicated to the brave people out there who face boots, tear gas, batons, rifle-butts and bullets with their voice and bare hands. Who bleed, who suffer in detention, who are tortured, who are killed. I heard a monk say: "We forgive them all. Despite what they do, we forgive them." ... What can you say more? ... Tom Morello alias "The Nightwatchman" was with Audioslave and Rage Against The Machine. This song is from his own album "One Man Revolution". The album was actually about the current state of the US, and I find some countermeasures it indicates a little extreme in a country that still works on a democratic basis. But maybe it's a perfect fit for Burma.
The Nightwatchman/Tom Morello
L e t F r e e d o m R i n g
There's a man homeless and hungry
There's a wind that's hard and biting
There's a song in need of singing
There's a fuse in need of light
It's no secret the day is coming
And it's a day I hope to see
But if they ask
If they ask you brother
Who told you that
You didn't hear it from me
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
There's a book with seven seals
There's a beast with seven heads
There's seven angels on seven horses
There's seven vials with seven plagues
So if you hear
If you hear a knocking
On that door
Just let it be
But if they ask
If they ask you brother
Who told you that
You didn't hear it from me
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Where the righteous
Where the righteous stood
And where the righteous
Where the righteous fell
There's a voice
That's soft and whispering
Coming from the bottom of the well
And I tried hard to remember
To remember what that voice said
Over and over
Over and over
I repeated those words
Inside my head
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
And if they ask
If they ask you brother
Who told you that
Tell them it was me
Today is the the International Blogger's Day for Burma. Please spread the word. Please remember what happened this autumn. Here's a people struggling for freedom and being kept down by their own government. Just yesterday we celebrated the re-union of Germany in 1990. I still only have a vague idea what happened to some people I knew, and why some strange incidents occured in my life, before the Wall came down. But it looks harmless compared to the horrors in Burma. With the demonstrations here in 1989, we were very close to that point, too. Thanks once more to the people who made the right decisions back then. Believe me, I can very much account for what it means to live in a country that is (not) free. I so wish that the Burmese people would finally get a chance to share this experience. Please speak up, point it out again and again. The regime is trying to block any critical information circulating or coming into or out of Burma. They block and cut communication lines. Please distribute what you find away from the major news channels. Some people I know over there seem unaffected at the moment, but I'm not on location so I don't know all of it. But what other sources tell sends a shiver down my back and tears to my eyes.
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