Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Redemption Song es una canción del álbum Uprising , el último lanzado por Bob Marley & the Wailers antes de la muerte de Marley . Para cuando compuso el tema, en 1979, a Marley ya se le había diagnosticado cáncer y, según las propias palabras de su esposa Rita Marley, se encontraba en un profundo estado de depresión y tristeza.
A diferencia de la mayor parte de los temas de Bob Marley, "Redemption Song" es una grabación acústica en solitario con estilo folclórico donde Bob toca la guitarra y canta sin ningún acompañamiento instrumental extra. En el mismo disco Uprising, se puede encontrar esta canción instrumentalizada tocada por The Wailers y cantada por Bob.
Al igual que muchos de los temas del cantautor, "Redemption Song" expresa ideales del movimiento rastafari y promueve la liberación de la gente de sus propias imposiciones mentales.
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Letra
Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
sold i to the merchant ships,
minutes after they took i
from the bottomless pit.
but my hand was made strong
by the 'and of the almighty.
we forward in this generation
triumphantly.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom? -
'cause all i ever have:
redemption songs;
redemption songs.
emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our minds.
have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them can stop the time.
how long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look? ooh!
some say it's just a part of it:
we've got to fulfil de book.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom? -
'cause all i ever have:
redemption songs;
redemption songs;
redemption songs.
---
/guitar break/
---
emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our mind.
wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
how long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look?
yes, some say it's just a part of it:
we've got to fulfil de book.
won't you help to sing
dese songs of freedom? -
'cause all i ever had:
redemption songs -
all i ever had:
redemption songs:
these songs of freedom,
songs of freedom.
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Letra
Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
sold i to the merchant ships,
minutes after they took i
from the bottomless pit.
but my hand was made strong
by the 'and of the almighty.
we forward in this generation
triumphantly.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom? -
'cause all i ever have:
redemption songs;
redemption songs.
emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our minds.
have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them can stop the time.
how long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look? ooh!
some say it's just a part of it:
we've got to fulfil de book.
won't you help to sing
these songs of freedom? -
'cause all i ever have:
redemption songs;
redemption songs;
redemption songs.
---
/guitar break/
---
emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
none but ourselves can free our mind.
wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
'cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
how long shall they kill our prophets,
while we stand aside and look?
yes, some say it's just a part of it:
we've got to fulfil de book.
won't you help to sing
dese songs of freedom? -
'cause all i ever had:
redemption songs -
all i ever had:
redemption songs:
these songs of freedom,
songs of freedom.
YAPA