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from Not Too Busy To Hate by Hakim Jamal

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This song sounds like what would happen if the Love Unlimited Orchestra were an Asian Techno band. The musical idea first started when I was messing around with a Tabla beat and Hakim suggested I added a Sitar. I'd been wanting to do a song which had a Sitar riff, a little like groups such as the Chi-Lites and The Dells did in the 70s. So the two ideas fitted perfectly together. Then when I heard the story about the couple who got married during the BLM protests I had my lyric. The song is about the power of love - the man finds a woman to whom the struggle is important, and this makes him love her all the more.

The lyrics in brackets were written and sung but I loved the Sitar line too much to complicate it. However, I still think they add to the meaning of the song overall.

lyrics

We are goin’ through a time of many troubles
And we gotta believe
That sometimes al though you know your spirit’s broken
You can achieve
(If there’s a hell below I ain’t ready to go because in my heart I know)

(Everything you are
Is everything you are to me
And everything you are right now
Is nothing – to what you can be)

When it first began you said you need a man
To take you under his wing
And you couldn’t see that you would need the struggle
to make you into something
(Cos if we don’t have a reason now we never will)

(Everything you are
Is everything you are to me
And everything you are right now
Is nothing – to what you can be)

When George, Michelle, Tamir and brother Michael
Opened our eyes
To what we know was goin’ down around us
‘What a surprise’!
(Or so it seemed to the folks in the White-house)
Because now we want to look in-to the future
We understand
If the streets seem mean it doesn’t mean we’re violent -
We’re makin’ a stand
(And we wanna take all of you along with us)

(Everything you are
Is everything you are to me
And everything you are right now
Is nothing – to what you can be)

In the neighbourhood we got a reputation
For livin’ our dreams
And we don’t look back, we look into the future
Cos we know what it means
(It might be complicated, but we don’t hate the haters)

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from Not Too Busy To Hate, released July 9, 2020

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Hakim Jamal Manchester, UK

The music created by Paul Ashley Wheatcroft is inspired by 70s artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. English musician Paul signed for Big Life/Polygram and is published by Universal Music.His new incarnation is a collective called The Mint 400. ... more