THE WORLD IS NOT YOUR APOCALYPSE
- Terry McArthur
- Oct 25, 2020
- 3 min read
BLOG #2 : October 2020
Ruminations | Reflections | Anecdotes | Contemplations.
MR PRESIDENT (NO FAKE NEWS) is the first single off The Space Between.
For Blog # 2 we asked Terry to say something about the origins of the song,
dropped in Frido Viola's brilliant video and included the full lyrics and credits.
" The world is not your apocalypse"
That was the first line of what what would become MR PRESIDENT ( NO FAKE NEWS).
It was 2017 and Trump and Kim Jong-un had yet to fully indulge in the fantasy that they were the saviors of humanity. Trump tweets warned "Rocket Boy" of "fire and fury" the likes of which the world had never seen if North Korea's resident Chairman and serial human rights abuser, so much as pointed a missile at America.
By 2018 Trump had replaced USA basketball legend Dennis Rodwell as Kim the Winker's new favorite best western friend. By 2019 Trump would become the first sitting US president to step into North Korea after he shook hands with Kim Jong-un in the Korean demilitarised zone (DMZ) and then lumbered north before crossing back South to sit down for the frippery of "formal talks".
Of course there were those who called for Nobel prizes but by the beginning of this year the ticker-tape parade for world peace had already began to fade into the long dark shadow of COVID. History, to Trump's bewilderment, was a virus.
And I wonder what thoughts ran through the President's mind as he saw his grey suited buddy Kim the Winker perched high above Il Sung Square looking down at the goose stepping precision of a midnight military parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the ruling Worker's Party. I wonder what tweet ran through his mind as North Korea's new intercontinental ballistic missile, reported to be the largest road-mobile rocket of its type, rolled through the streets.
I'll tell you what ran through mine:
Mr President. Mr Chairman. The world is not your apocalypse.
© Terry McArthur Blue Pearl Music.
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WATCH VIDEO
CREDITS
MR PRESIDENT (NO FAKE NEWS)
© McARTHUR-GUIP-COLOW-MURPHY
Produced | Recorded |Mixed by
Justin Guip at Milan Hill Studios
Mastered by: Dave McNair
Video by Fredo Viola
Terry McArthur: Spoken word
Jesse Murphy: Vocals, bass,
Josh Colow: Guitars
Justin Guip: Drums
Special Thanks :
Deborah Young
James Curtis, Bob Roden,
Rob Sampson, Krishnananda
Executive Producers:
Alison Dunn, Bhu Devi, Chin Kham Yoke,
David Ostinga, Deanne Hinder Hawkins
Frances Dart, Parvati, Robyn Hall,
Susan Filan, Victoria Wildie
Spiritual Instructions:
Baba Muktananda, Shakti Durga, Amma
Released by Blue Pearl Music and distributed by MGM.
© Blue Pearl Music. All rights reserved.
LYRICS
MR PRESIDENT (NO FAKE NEWS)
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
Mr President Mr Chairman
the world is not your apocalypse
&
you are no saviors
&
peace
is not
a bargaining chip
&
missiles
are not
golf clubs or basketballs
&
murder by missiles
is a crime
against humanity
Mr President Mr Chairman
There’s a war going on
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
Mr President Mr Chairman
The ghosts of Hiroshima
are asking after you
Rest assured
this is not fake news
These are not alternative facts
They know all about fire & fury
& ashen bones
Mr President Mr Chairman
You are no saviors
Mr Chairman Mr President
This is the fight
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
The faster it goes the slower it gets
The less I remember the more I forget
They bind you to meanings, they tie you to wheels
They blow out your senses ‘til you don’t know what to feel--
Where are the stories, where are the songs?
Where is the love we always longed?
Where is the truth by what laws truth shall we live?
How shall we take, what shall we give?
We who are exiles, we who are swarm
This the fight.
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
This is the war, this what we are all here for
There’s a war going on and on and on and on
No no no no no
No no no no no
No fake news here
© Mr President (McArthur-Guip-Colow-Murphy) Blue Pearl Music 2020.
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