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Old pirates, yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Ooh, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our mind
Whoa, have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
All I ever had
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom
| kdarwish (Turku, Finland) | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 21:53 Perennial legacy from Marley, thank you. |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 21:49 big stud Romeo Tuma wrote: In Redemption Song, Marley urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds..." these lines came from a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October of 1937... profound... love it... Yup... still love it... |
| GreggH | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 21:49 Marley is certainly an icon, but there are a variety of great reggae artists that deserve air time. |
| stevieslo | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 09:10 has to be one of the top 10 songs ever written / performed...and still very glad that some people just don't get that...makes it all the better for me. |
| testpilot | Posted: Feb 28, 2013 - 18:50 I'm fighting with his English right now... |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Jan 28, 2013 - 12:00 I think some people are missing the point. It's Bob Marley. Sit down, skin up and let the man do his thing. So not possible to overhype his genius. |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Oct 10, 2012 - 09:38 joelbb wrote: Sorry, Dude, but Marley is The Most Over-Hyped Act Ever (yes, including Radiohead, Bill). And he may have been influential with a certain lackluster set, but was certainly NOT a superior artist, even for reggae, that most tedious of genres of popular music. Toots, Desmond Decker, Jimmy Cliff and a host of others actually wrote songs that didn't all sound alike. I'm sorry to pop your silly-ass, hip-wannabe bubble - that's a lie, actually I'm not at all sorry - but what Marley stood for was smoking ganga and making money. His act and lyrics were shaped by dweebs like you that have no savvy, even less musical taste and are instantly entranced by any pseudo-spiritualistic, groovy peace-love&Bobby Sherman hokum that rolls down the road. I was generous to give him a 2. You don't need to justify your opinions with a load of meaningless, vitriolic declarations. Your opinions do not constitute fact - just your viewpoint. Get over yourself. |
| joelbb | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 22:20 lemmoth wrote: Only that he was the most important and influential artist in developing a new and unique hybrid form of popular muisc. And he wrote many, many, many amazing songs. And that he was a dynamic performer and singer who worked first with two other wonderful performing partners and always with some of the best musicians in the world. And that he stood for peace and equality and freedom and spiritual salvation. Other than that........ Sorry, Dude, but Marley is The Most Over-Hyped Act Ever (yes, including Radiohead, Bill). And he may have been influential with a certain lackluster set, but was certainly NOT a superior artist, even for reggae, that most tedious of genres of popular music. Toots, Desmond Decker, Jimmy Cliff and a host of others actually wrote songs that didn't all sound alike. I'm sorry to pop your silly-ass, hip-wannabe bubble - that's a lie, actually I'm not at all sorry - but what Marley stood for was smoking ganga and making money. His act and lyrics were shaped by dweebs like you that have no savvy, even less musical taste and are instantly entranced by any pseudo-spiritualistic, groovy peace-love&Bobby Sherman hokum that rolls down the road. I was generous to give him a 2. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 22:00 We be dancing... love this sublime song...  |
| joelbb | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 21:57 Tedium and tediummer. This guy is endlessly boring and you mullets jump in his boat as fast as you can. WHAT A BORE!!!!! He gets a 2. |
| ScottN (Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 05:56 I push the PSD and get this wonderful song. It is nice to hear Marley with a simple guitar and outside his usual band. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 10:05 tphord wrote: just don't get the fascination with Marley ... Only that he was the most important and influential artist in developing a new and unique hybrid form of popular muisc. And he wrote many, many, many amazing songs. And that he was a dynamic performer and singer who worked first with two other wonderful performing partners and always with some of the best musicians in the world. And that he stood for peace and equality and freedom and spiritual salvation. Other than that........ |
| bachbeet | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 00:05 Another great song from Bob. Another artist who died too young. |
| GT66 | Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 13:06 rdo wrote: I am unaware, and sublimley uninterested, in what Mr. Marley deems "mental slavery". That's the value of art. You don't have accept Marley's definition. You are free to choose your own. That is, unless you still suffer under the chains of mental slavery and are unable to define it for yourself. |
| dragonlady (Pasadena, CA) | Posted: Jun 22, 2012 - 13:03 Redemption - "...none but ourselves can free our mind."  |
| mistabird (frei republik allgäu) | Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 02:05 PEACE 2x 10 triple !!!! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 24, 2012 - 21:46 rdo wrote: I am unaware, and sublimley uninterested, in what Mr. Marley deems "mental slavery". You smell bad... everybody in my hotel room thinks you should bathe... we love this song... and the word is spelled "sublimely"...
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| rdo (DC) | Posted: Apr 03, 2012 - 15:23 romeotuma wrote: In Redemption Song, Marley urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds..." these lines came from a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October of 1937... profound... love it... Uh, well, forgive me if I am not 100% up to snuff on the finer parts of the movement, but from what little I know about it, Rastafarians worship one Haile Selassie I, the late monarch, emperor, and high priest of Ethiopia. Once again, forgive me if this is a controversial statement, but I can worship no human being, and I find the notion repugnant. I am unaware, and sublimley uninterested, in what Mr. Marley deems "mental slavery". I have thought long and hard about such things, and I find the notion of worshiping even a god, and going to heaven, the equivalent of desiring some celestial North Korea, where one is damned to all eternity to bow and supplicate oneself before an all-knowing, domineering, Kim Jong Il type of tyrant, from which there is no escape. Thanks, but, no thanks. |
| grogg | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 13:23 11 - God |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 16, 2012 - 13:22 marvelous... love it... |
| thais | Posted: Dec 30, 2011 - 11:55 TRIPLE 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 10, 2011 - 13:24 helgigermany wrote: Nice song, lyrics, guitar, everything, nice! Yes, this is one of the best songs of all time... love it... |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 21:47 Nice song, lyrics, guitar, everything, nice! |
| hiorgos (Matrix) | Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 21:46 Always good.. Peace! |
| bluecshells (EARTH) | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 13:15 Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery...none but ourselves can change our mind.....AMEN Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom. Everyday now.....every way now. Love. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 13:14 romeotuma wrote: In Redemption Song, Marley urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds..." these lines came from a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October of 1937... profound... love it... yup... love it... |
| Mosay (England) | Posted: May 23, 2011 - 13:12 tphord wrote: just don't get the fascination with Marley ... He sings openly of social injustice in his own unique style. Nothing more to it |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: May 11, 2011 - 18:31 Bob Marley and The Wailers - "Redemption Song" Live-acustic in studio |
| tphord (Up 'ere) | Posted: May 08, 2011 - 07:18 just don't get the fascination with Marley ... |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 16:05 The only Bob Marley song I like. But I prefer Joe Strummer's version. |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Mar 20, 2011 - 01:04 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Redemption Song "The first time I heard this song I cried my eyes out - it was just a year after Joe's death and I still couldn't believe he was gone...Listening to this again now I still well up with tears... Joe was no saint but he was truly inspirational and we need more people like him in the world today...The Clash were OUR band and they've never been replaced... Thank you Joe for the life you lived and the music and lyrics you gave us! " Joeatkins118
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| oldviolin (Esse quam videri) | Posted: Feb 02, 2011 - 21:02 Thank you, Alouishous, so very much...   |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Jan 02, 2011 - 13:28 calypsus_1 wrote:  bOb marley by ~ska-boum ©2007-2010 ~ska-boum j'aime beaucoup bob marley il restera graver dans ma memoire "For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the whole world..." ~MiLla-inc . Nice and well said! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Dec 18, 2010 - 21:33 bOb marley by ~ska-boum ©2007-2010 ~ska-boum j'aime beaucoup bob marley il restera graver dans ma memoire "For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the whole world..." ~MiLla-inc . |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Dec 17, 2010 - 11:00 I dunno, ol dis messianic stuff, man.... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 01, 2010 - 22:40 In Redemption Song, Marley urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds..." these lines came from a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October of 1937... profound... love it... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 14:43 Cynaera wrote: I'm not here all the time, and as I've stated in other posts, I live in a pretty musically-remote place, radio-wise, so stuff like this is rare. RP is my lifeline, and if Bill wants to play "All-Bob, All The Time," I'll happily listen until I, too, can be tired of hearing certain songs overplayed. I totally agree with sirdroseph - it's so good, it doesn't matter...  This really is a profound song... one of the best songs of infinity... I'm always happy to hear it... |
| jools (Brighton UK) | Posted: Sep 13, 2010 - 06:35 HazzeSwede wrote: This make's me misty eyed ! Make's me think of things that could have happened. "The Power Trio" Marley Lennon Hendrix A bit like the Travelling Willburys don't you think....../! |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Aug 12, 2010 - 06:02 This make's me misty eyed ! Make's me think of things that could have happened. "The Power Trio" Marley Lennon Hendrix |
| pcarew (Austin, Tx (orig. Canterbury UK)) | Posted: Jul 27, 2010 - 15:46 Here is a refreshing take on this, done by the Jamaican saxophonist Dean Fraser Dean Fraser playing Redemption son on the Sax Click Here to play  From Wikipedia.... "Fraser appeared at the 1981 Reggae Sunsplash, performing an instrumental version of the recently-deceased Bob Marley's "Redemption Song""  |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Jul 27, 2010 - 15:12 sirdroseph wrote: Sure it's overplayed, but it is so good, it doesn't matter. I'm not here all the time, and as I've stated in other posts, I live in a pretty musically-remote place, radio-wise, so stuff like this is rare. RP is my lifeline, and if Bill wants to play "All-Bob, All The Time," I'll happily listen until I, too, can be tired of hearing certain songs overplayed. I totally agree with sirdroseph - it's so good, it doesn't matter... |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: Jun 09, 2010 - 12:02 I DO have fear of the atomic energy |
| Panama_Floyd (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 18:20 Mandible wrote: i read he converted from rasta to christian on his deathbed? Anyone else hear this? Any truth to it? Bah. I can't find any *real* evidence, but some christians have claimed that almost every public figure, from Darwin to Sagan had some sort of "deathbed confession". I don't know why they do that..perhaps some christians have less "faith" than others, and need to hear stories like that. |
| PFM (Off the road) | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 18:16 bokey wrote: I heard he was alive and working at a Pizza Hut in Scottsdale. Bob actually worked for a while at the Chrysler plant in Wilmington, DE - driving a forklift. |
| rbigelo | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 18:16 This is God-like. Boo on the stations to that overplay this tune *ad nauseum.* |
| rbigelo | Posted: May 08, 2010 - 18:16 This is God-like. Boo on the stations to that overplay this tune *ad nauseum.* |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 04:57 Just for a moment, before yer man started singing, I thought the intro was that of Half Man Half Biscuit's "Trumpton Riots". I'll get over the disappointment ;) |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:30 Sure it's overplayed, but it is so good, it doesn't matter. |
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:21 I had to log on just to make sure I rated this one. Thank you, Bob. |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 14:21 I refuse to score this less than 9 but it's so overplayed, I have to mute it (and all Marley.) And if I hear one more busker singing this.... |