About a month ago I was lucky enough to catch The Swell Season perform. The election was only one month away and there was an energy in the air that night that I've never felt before. An underlying feeling of unity and hope.
My favorite moment of the night was just before their final song. An impassioned Glen Hansard pleaded to the crowd to wake up on the morning of November 4th and go take a walk in nature, sit by a river, ask yourself what you should do, and then go vote for Obama! The crowd's applause was deafening! He then lead the entire crowd in a sing along version of what should have been Obama's campaign theme song, "People Get Ready."
'People Get Ready'
People all get ready
'Cos we're tearing down the man
Rebuild what's gone unsteady
And see it through with cleaner hands
And what has gone between us
Is a lot, is a lot...
Swell Season - People Get Ready - 10/03/08 - San Diego
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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