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Hold on to Love in a World Gone Mad

from We're All We Have by Divine Weeks

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Lyrically, this song takes its inspiration from Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire” and the line “all the souls were one” from the Peter Handke’s “Song of Childhood."
“When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful, and all souls were one.”
And although it isn’t expressly reflected in the song very much, there’s a spirit taken from the library scene where Homer, the old man, is going through an old book on the war and laments that no one has written an epic of peace:
“Now I can think only day by day. My heroes are no longer the
warriors and kings but the things of peace, one equal to the other…
But no one has so far succeeded in singing an epic of peace. What
is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn’t endure and that its
story is hardly told? Must I give up now? If I do give up, then
mankind will lose its storyteller. And once mankind loses its
storyteller it will also lose its childhood.”
I always took Homer as Wenders himself, as the storyteller, the historian, and I’ve always taken the movie to mean through the muse artists self-deputize themselves and through their chosen medium pass stories along and preserve humanity. But, if people panic in their fears and forget, then history is of no use.
The first verse of the song is my recurring dream of falling and not being able to speak. Kind of like the time we’re living in – this kind of disorienting feeling of being unheard and continually off balance.

“In my dream I keep falling
And I cannot speak
I roamed a hall of mirrors
I can’t find my feet.”

Then the second verse might be to someone whose fallen victim to Trump’s message or maybe just to someone you love who has fallen prey to propagated fear:

“Fear it goes down easy
And it makes you so cruel
It makes you do the kind of thing
You vowed you won’t do.”

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HOLD ON TO LOVE IN A WORLD GONE MAD

In my dream I keep falling, and I cannot speak,
I roam a hall of mirrors, but I can’t find my feet.
The future dangles by a thread that we’re hanging on to
As we wait for the old to pass and all the things turn new.

ch. They say this too will pass and this too will change
And so, we’ll let it all go and see what remains.
Oh my sweet lovie baby, we’re all we have
We’ve got to hold on to love in a world gone mad

Fear, it goes down easy, but it makes you so cruel.
It makes you do the kind of things you vowed you won’t do.
We’ve only this moment, may our songs be sung
About the world before the world when all the souls were one.

ch. They say this too will pass and this too will change
And so, we’ll let it all go and see what remains.
Oh my sweet lovie baby, we’re all we have
We’ve got to hold on to love in a world gone mad
Oh my sweet lovie baby, we’re all we have
We’ve got to hold on to love in a world gone mad.

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from We're All We Have, released November 9, 2018
Written by Bill See, Raj Makwana & Dave Smerdzinski
©2018 Reach You Music. All Rights Reserved

Raj Makwana: All Guitars
Bill See: Vocals, Harmonica
Dave Smerdzinski: Drums, Percussion
Steve Soto: Bass

Produced by Divine Weeks
Recorded & Mixed at Grandma’s Warehouse Studio, Echo Park, CA June 2 - October 1, 2018
Engineered by Andrew Bush
Mastered at The SoundLab

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Named one of the 15 best unsigned bands by the L.A. Times, Divine Weeks were signed to Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn's Down There label releasing debut "Through & Through" in '87. In '91 they released "Never Get Used To It." After a lengthy hiatus, singer Bill See's memoir "33 Days" was the catalyst to reforming & releasing "See Those Landing Lights" & the politically charged "We're All We Have" ... more

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