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We put out a new record last
fall called American Band
and this was the first song I wrote for the
record
and when I wrote it
I wasn't really even thinking
in terms of writing a song for my band
it wasn't political
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an d I'd been watch
ing the news
about making another record
the Ferguson decision
I remember a neighbor I'd had
when I first moved to Georgia,
neighborhood
that I could afford to move into
and our neighbor across the street
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was this older African -American lady,
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She was always out working in her garden,
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and her son was about early 20s,
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he had problems, you know, like happens.
who just happened to be grown up,
and he also happened to be African
and American in the deep South,
and they were deeply religious.
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And one day,
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the Lord told him to cast off all worldly things
all your clothes
and go downtown and
talk about the Lord.
And so that's what he did.
And he took off running
and his mama was worried about
him.
wanted them to bring her boy back.
And they did,
but in our society,
the enemy
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you know, and that's why it's dangerous when the person who calls himself the leader of the free world
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is spreading such fucking bullshit
and tweeting at three in the morning
and telling cops that
they shouldn't be soft on people
as they're putting their
against the side of the car.
Think about that.
That's the message we're sending out
And like I said, I wasn't trying to
get all political.
It was personal.
It was fucking personal.
And I knew his mama,
and she was so sweet.
They would always wave
when we'd come and go.
it's this fear of the other
that's got to stop
before we can
progress as a country
and become
the people we're supposed to be.
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