Here’s a distraction from the condition of the world today. In the middle of a global pandemic, grief, protests and loss, eleven selected songs with a message of hope, love and collaboration, performed by Bruce Hornsby. In the face of adversity: don’t you believe them.
To those who say “all” lives matter, that can’t happen until black lives matter.
And to those who tell us that none of that can be changed: please, don’t believe them.
The Way It Is tells us:
“They passed a law in ’64 / To give those who ain’t got a little more /But it only goes so far. / Because the law don’t change another’s mind / When all it sees at the hiring time / Is the line on the color bar”
“That’s just the way it is / Some things will never change / That’s just the way it is / But don’t you believe them“.
That part of that song is imploring us:
It may seem like “some things will never change” if we wait for the failures of society and the human condition to fix themselves.
Instead, it falls upon each of us, individually, to proactively take our own steps to change them ourselves.
Please enjoy these songs.
Download eleven live performances by Bruce Hornsby
01. Fire on the Cross
» 8.0 MiB - 248 downloads
Miami, FL
March 31 1994
02. Sticks and Stones
» 5.9 MiB - 228 downloads
Charleston, SC
October 25 2002
03. Imagine
» 4.0 MiB - 211 downloads
Brussels, Belgium
December 5 1995
04. See the Same Way
» 7.1 MiB - 222 downloads
Oakland, CA
October 31 1998
05. Line in the Dust
» 6.2 MiB - 221 downloads
Oakland, CA
November 4 1998
06. Talk of the Town
» 5.2 MiB - 216 downloads
Norfolk, VA
December 12 1993
07. Great Divide > Across the Great Divide
» 12.3 MiB - 215 downloads
Syracuse, NY
September 28 2002
08. Ripple
» 5.3 MiB - 226 downloads
York, PA
November 12 2000
09. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
» 4.7 MiB - 231 downloads
Oakland, CA
October 28 1998
10. The Way It Is
» 9.9 MiB - 243 downloads
w/Kofi Burbridge
1996 - exact date unknown
11. Everyday People
» 1.7 MiB - 266 downloads
Winterthur, Switzerland
December 16 1995
Enjoy this Bruce Hornsby download – eleven songs of peace, love and hope. Don’t you believe them.