Four of the greatest lyrics in any song I've ever heard. So simple that they, frankly, don't even really need elaboration. It doesn't stop me from trying though.
The conflict endemic to all black art, especially art by those with the clout, money and ability to engage in minor social mobility is that much of this art comes from pain. Senseless pain. A lot of joy, absolutely. But so much loss that the gains struggle to matter at times.
You can choose salvation or sin, but neither will save you.
You can choose to pull the trigger or you can be shot down.
False dichotomies, right. Religion won't save you from poverty so deep that its inherited like dynasty. It's the same as indulgence, its a stopgap, a temporary diversion from the things we cannot control around us.
Make a pack or get turned into a pack, you'll be remembered all the same. Neither is an honorable position and neither is predestined. The one firing has just as much to lose as the person being put down.
But there's something. Fascinating about the ultimate choice presented in this song, one that breaks from the narratives that sell so much music and appease the gaze of white consumers and the liberals who shake their heads and the conservatives who poison the well further.
In the absence of the person whose life has been taken, others will carry their name on. That doesn't make it right, that doesn't make it just. But telling that story, opening that wound and letting that vulnerability bleed out means a lot more than painting your scars gold.
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okay so stexlo just posted a new video to instagram and I zoomed in on this sheet music fully expecting it to just be the song "Starlight Express" since that's the one they've been using as BGM for every video so far but...
New song revealed!?
New character name revealed!?
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Even right now, I still can't stop laughing whenever I remember that XiaoGe/MenYouPing/Zhang Qiling --- is the Jay Chou of the Tomb Robbing world🤣🤣🤣🤣
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