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HUMANITIES - First Things Thirst

from Human Sun by Humanities / Low Sun

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“First Things Thirst” announces its message clearly enough in the play on words in its title, stating the obvious fact that humans require water to live. Living in a world where the natural environment, that which sustains all life on earth, is increasingly privatized and under threat from pollution and global warming, we felt a tremendous sense of helpless and rage. So what to do with this rage, this hopelessness in the face of global injustice and brutality, in the blind eye governments and corporations seem to turn toward those who they should serve, as we saw, for example, in the crimes perpetrated against the peoples of Flint, Michigan and, later, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation? “First Things Thirst” is a gesture of solidarity, however small, with those peoples and others around the world struggling for existence. And, in this way, the song is a love song for that great anonymous collective of people suffering. The songs says, yes, we’re angry and we’re confused, but we also suffer and live together. We are in this together.

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from Human Sun, released July 13, 2017

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