The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. Not days, not nights.The Best of Freddy Fender The Best of Freddy Fender Live in Las Vegas Great Hits 3 for 3: Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Freddy Fender Wasted Days & Wasted Nights In His Prime Country Giants Live in Concert The Best of Freddy Fender Greatest Hits Crazy Cajun Recordings Lone Star: The Best of Freddy Fender Before the Next Teardrop Falls Before the Next Teardrop Falls Before the Next Teardrop Falls Live at Gilley's Back to Back Freddy Fender's Greatest Hits Live in Concert Tell It Like It Is: Best of Crazy Cajun Recordings Freddy Fender: 20 Hits Good Old Country Tex-Mex Music Forever Gold 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Freddy Fender Back to Back Best of Freddy Fender Before the Next Teardrop Falls Greatest Hits Secret Love: Live Greatest Hits Dueling Country Classic Country Super Hits Country Stars & Stripes Back to Back Hits & More Classic American Voices Best of Freddy Fender: Wasted Days & Wasted Nights On the Border The Best of Freddy Fender Country Comes to Carnegie Hall The Platinum Collection Freddy Fender Live Tex-Mex Tornado Freddie Fender Live Golden Legends: Freddy Fender Live Redneck Rebels 9 Top Ten Hits Country Hit Parade Greatest Hits Live Greatest Hits (Mastersound) Wasted Days & Wasted Nights King of Tex Mex Live in Concert: The Platinum Artist Series 18 Greatest Pure Wasted Days & Wasted Nights Tex Mex Legend Best of Hits Freddy Fender Before the Next Teardrop Falls Before the Next Teardrop Falls Country Collection: Freddy & Buck 20 Greatest Hits Star Power I Love Country Music Wasted Days, Wasted Nights King of Tex-Mex Live And although I’m still alone, and I’ve not forgotten the past, it’s all just that…the past. I moved 500 miles away and started a new life. So I worked on leaving it all behind me and going on. I needed to move on and put the past behind me. Then even later, when I had gotten over that heartbreak and had spent so many days and nights alone, crying, mourning the loss of my marriage, I finally realized that it had all been a waste of time. Later, when I could truly relate to the lyrics (…For you don’t belong to me, Your heart belongs to someone else, Why should I keep on loving you, When I know that you’re not true…) the song meant so much more. I was in college then and just fell in love with the song, the music, and the lyrics, as I had fallen in love with Before the Next Teardrop Falls earlier in the same year. I’ve always loved that song since I heard it in the summer of 1975. Turn that line into the title of your post.Īs some of you know and others may have guess from the name of this blog, I love the song Wasted Nights And Wasted Days by the late Freddie Fender. Prompt: Take a line from a song you love or connect with.
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