Urgency of Now (August 28ths)

8/28/1963            
 

Field recording: March on Washington. (Audio Snapshot)

 

8/28/2008            
 

Obama is nominated at Dem convention and gives historic speech in Denver. His “Big Night” 4 years in the making, and 45 years after King’s “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. (“The fierce urgency of now”). I like what congressman James Clyburn said about the impact of this moment—that 4-5 year olds will see it as a paradigm shift, similar to the effect Kennedy had.    
 

[8/28/2024: Those 4-5 year-olds will be voting for the first time in 2024. I’m not sure if Clyburn was alluding to that fact, i.e. a paradigm shift rivaling Kennedy. I think that would be true with Kamala Harris. “We’re not going back” is the human universal of liberal democracies].  

A simple folk song possibility (Feel free to use and expand)      

Urgency of Now (8-28-2008) by meta4s

 

ChatGPT Lyrics generated on "The Fierce Urgency of Now":

 (Verse 1)
Time slips away, no promise for tomorrow,
Every second we borrow, we gotta make it count.
The world’s on fire, no room for our sorrow,
We rise from the ashes, no time to slow down.

(Chorus)
Feel the heartbeat of the moment, it’s pounding loud,
In the fierce urgency of now.
We won’t back down, we won’t stand still,
In the fierce urgency of now, we climb this hill.

(Verse 2)
The winds of change are blowing through our veins,
Breaking the chains, we won’t live in vain.
The clock is ticking, but we’re not afraid,
In the here and now, we’ve got choices to make.

(Chorus)
Feel the heartbeat of the moment, it’s pounding loud,
In the fierce urgency of now.
We won’t back down, we won’t stand still,
In the fierce urgency of now, we climb this hill.

(Bridge)
No more waiting, the future’s ours to steal,
The time is now, and the wounds will heal.
We’ll forge our path in the here and the real,
With every step, the truth revealed.

(Chorus)
Feel the heartbeat of the moment, it’s pounding loud,
In the fierce urgency of now.
We won’t back down, we won’t stand still,
In the fierce urgency of now, we climb this hill.

(Outro)
In the fierce urgency of now, we’re breaking free,
Writing our story in the here and the now,
In the fierce urgency of now, we find our peace,
No turning back, we live it out loud. 

2 AI-generations--not a political folk song by any means (Music isn’t a “search result”)

https://ilovesong.ai/share/?id=1195500&uid=f4f5a269-ef47-4f5c-a808-c610be41a4bc

https://ilovesong.ai/share/?id=1195500&uid=6af339ec-1dad-4931-a690-0ebf5362dcfa