Monday, January 21, 2013

"Wisdom, Justice, And Love / Iridescent" – Linkin Park's Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.



"Wisdom, Justice, And Love / Iridescent" – Linkin Park's Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:

"This way of settling differences is not just." 

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love." — (Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence by Rev. Martin Luther King - 4 April 1967)

At 33, he was pressing the case of civil rights with President John Kennedy.
At 34, he galvanized the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech.
At 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
At 39, he was assassinated, but he left a legacy of hope and inspiration that continues today.
 You were standing in the wake of devastation,
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown.
And with the cataclysm raining down,
Insides crying, "Save me now",
You were there, impossibly alone.


Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration,
And let it go,
Let it go.


And in a burst of light that blinded every angel,
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars,
You felt the gravity of tempered grace,
Falling into empty space,
No one there to catch you in their arms.


Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration,
And let it go,
Let it go.


Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration,
And let it go,
Let it go.


Let it go,
Let it go,
Let it go.


Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration,
And let it go,
Let it go.


A Thousand Suns (2010) by Linkin Park

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