The song I am going to post is called "I'm Sensitive" by Jewel. I tried to post other blogs with more music but each time it wouldn't allow me to, so by the fourth time I gave up. the music I was also going to include were songs by N.W.A. and the Flobots. If you are interested in these songs just let me know, also, I love music so I know a lot of really good artists and a lot of subtle or explicit songs which protest injustice.
Jewel's song:
I was thinking that I might fly today
Just to disprove all the things you say
It doesn't take a talent to be mean
Your words can crush things that are unseen
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way.
You always tell me that is impossible
To be respected and be a girl
Why's it gotta be so complicated?
Why you gotta tell me if I'm hated?
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way.
I was thinking that it might do some good
If we robbed the cynics and took all their food
That way what they believe will have taken place
And we can give it to people who have some faith
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive
And I'd like to stay that way.
I have this theory that if we're told we're bad
Then that's the only idea we'll ever have
But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty
Someday we will become what we see
'Cause anyone can start a conflict
it's harder yet to disregard it
I'd rather see the world from another angle
We are everyday angels
Be careful with me 'cause I'd like to stay that way
This song covers the topics of women's oppression and the responsibility of the public to bring more beauty in the world. I like how she expresses the need to maintain her sensitivity, because in so much of our everyday lives we are desensitized to a lot of injustice, such as racial oppression, women's oppression, classist oppression, and so on. She demands her right to stay sensitive because compassion and sensitivty are inherent in human beings, it can just be stifled by current society and even belittled to being "weak".
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