How many mountains we’d move.

I haven’t posted much about myself or my feelings in some time. But that’s what my blog was about before November, and I need it to be that again, at least today.

I was in New York yesterday when I heard about what happened at Virginia Tech. I made it back to Los Angeles late last night, and, today, I’ve barely left my bedroom.

The loss of life is incomprehensible to me. In a day and age when 3,308 American soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq, the murder of 32 people is still horrifically shocking. Has the world always been falling apart? Will it always be?

I could only think of this song. I can’t stop thinking about it. Cause we can. Please?

Awakening Americans
Alanis Morissette

Please listen.

We watch movies of murder and we censor the breast
Give thanks for the murders of Chris Columbus
We kill our own and we vote for the man
The lesser of evils and us starring in the role of victim

I wonder how we’d change if we can, in this land
I wonder how many mountains we’d move if we band together
Us priveleged Americans

We pass our revisions onto the next generation
We kneel to the gods of corporation
We eat when we’re full and we hoard all the rest
With our hands on remotes we say “Yes, we’re the best!”

I wonder what we’d change in this land, cause we can
Even with Western centricity this rampant
Us ugly Americans

Tied are not my hands
But see strangers and lineaments
As part of me; as you
For me this awakening Canadian

We teach our offspring for themselves, every man
We shrug our shoulders and create yet another “-ism”
We dissuade our young from using their imagination
We avert our eyes from this our very own manifestation

I wonder what will change in this land, cause we can
I wonder how many mouths we’d fill if we band together
Us awakening Americans