Streetwalker knows how to strut right She knows the truth

Artist- Delta Spirit
Song of the day- Streetwalker

Speaking of songs that make you think, please allow me to hop up on my soap box for just a quick blog...Delta Spirit was a band I fell in love with during my music reviewing days, which also was the same time I started getting interested in social justice and contemplating changing my career because I was learning things about the world that when I was younger I thought couldn't be true. People couldn't be suffering this much, enslaved still, in America, the world couldn't be this awful. The main thing that shook me to the core was sex trafficking. The brutality, the fact that it was happening right in the city i lived in along with all over the world, the amount of money it made and that like me, a lot people had no idea it was happening. To know this stuff existed and to not help people seemed absurd, seemed like I had no right calling myself a christian if i ignored it, made my silly existence and dreams of music writing fame and film production not matter. And i'm not belittling any careers for it all has it's place. And it's not like I'm saving lives on a daily basis and changing the world, I'm far less than what I should be doing. But it was that stirring that drove me to the direction my life is in now. And I think that boiling of emotion for your fellow man ignites in this song for this specific subject matter magnificently well by Delta Spirit. It's the what makes you so different from them? Why can't god set them free? What if he sent us to set them free type of feeling wrapped up in one song. Beautiful. So perhaps career changes and caped crusade adventures isn't the answer for you, but it is amazing what passion for helping can drive you to do. And if you're looking for a little passion stirring, I suggest checking out this band.



Streetwalker knows how to strut right
She knows the truth
Bad boys walking through the corridor
God knows what they're gonna do.

Darkness paraded across the headlines:
'Little girl stolen from her bedroom,'
Homeless, beat to death, or put out
Hopeless... greedy and cruel.

Oh why can't I feel for you?
My heart is so black to you--
Oh--

Her head was spinning like a hurricane,
Tina was singing her name
Old men like to rape her in the red light
She's too young and numb to complain

Little boy bought at the age of six,
Down the street he's wearing a dress
Look at his face, you won't see no innocence
He's got so much experience

Oh why can't I feel for you?
They lie, what can I do?

Oh Love, set me free!
Set me free!
Come on and set me free!

Oh Lord, set me free!
Set me free!
Come on and set me free!

Underground... the German Casanova
Underground... The Panamanian Queen
He whispers, "Down here, the law will never find you.
Down here I am your God and King"

It's a sin to sit and just do nothing,
There's a special place in hell for me
Oh God I just gotta do something
I swear to God this is happening--

Oh Love, set me free!
Set me free!
Come on and set me free!

Oh Lord, set me free!
Set me free!
Oh, it could have been me.


Oh Lord, set them free!
Set them free!
It could have been me.

my love is strong And my heart is weak After all

Artist- Delta Spirit
Song of the day Bushwick Blues

Have you ever liked a song because of a single lyric? That's what happened with me and this song. I've currently been obsessed with choruses because I can't seem to write one for the life of me. I find myself writings songs of endless verses and forgotten how to tie it in to one great phrase that's so damn true and catchy, everything else you have written could be crap as long as the chorus is good. And this is a great chorus. Besides making me desperately crave a diner at 1am after seeing this band a bazillion times and possibly co-writing a song about the lead singer's tight pants and cardigan sweaters, Delta Spirit knows how to write catchy, play dancee, screech vocally, and speak deeply without you realizing it. And all that can be encompassed in the chorus. Which may set my new goal of only speaking in poignant choruses. This may be difficult, I may talk even less than I already do, because my love is strong, and my heart is weak, after all.



Hold on to my hand
Never let go
Never let go
We were just two kids acting tough
Then we grew up
Me, not so much

All the other guys that you've seen
are nothing compared to me
Because my love is strong
And my heart is weak
After all

When we first met
We spoke so brief
When you sang a sonnet
I hummed sweet relief
Do you recall that night we took the L
Out into Bushwick
It was colder than hell

So maybe there
We should have stopped
Cause I'm left here feeling like a cop
Because my love is strong
And my heart is weak
After all

To the other side
of the state's return
I met a young girl
Well I couldn't manage her
Because I think of you
In every girl i meet
It's no relief
That sounds to me just as sweet

So maybe I'm the fool for feeling used
By the way we kissed that night i though you knew
Because my love is strong
And my heart is weak
After all