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Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:38 am
by I-Lion Tafari
Seems a lot of people nowadays do not understand Bob´s messages anymore.
I have to face some strange and knotted thinking.
Just like No Woman No Cry is an anti-women song. I have read on a Swiss board where they seriously were discussing if Bob used to take speed. Some people were convinced about that.
Redemption song refers to the glory of God which stands over all human technologies.
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:10 am
by Lost Shoe
tron wrote:...if we dismiss progress,we will never grow
thats my idea summed up.
Progress is not wrong, of course.
But too often progress goes the wrong direction.
The march of progress must be wrong, if it steps over human being.
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:24 am
by tron
Thats fair ,the obvious religous statement must be all he meant.
However for someone who was anti atomic,he did embrace radiation therapy to try and save his life after realizing his religion was going to cure him.
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:50 pm
by uwead
Thank you so much for your feedback & help to understand!
My questions are answered and I feel good, respectively said better.
Love & Respect - uwead
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:54 am
by noyu
I-Lion Tafari wrote:
Just like No Woman No Cry is an anti-women song.
yes i´ve seen this misunderstatement too many times.
In a village nearby. on carnival they had a waggon with a wrong translation of the song written on it(like "when there is no woman, there is no cry) and everybody dressed as rastamen with huge paper-only joints.. just ridiculous.
but when "No Woman No Cry" came out, Bob had already an international audience, i often wonder why nobody in the management noticed how easily it could be misunderstood.
i mean the song would sound equally good with "No, Woman, dont cry"
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:10 am
by CONGO BUNNY
noyu wrote:I-Lion Tafari wrote :
Just like No Woman No Cry is an anti-women song.
yes i´ve seen this misunderstatement too many times.
In a village nearby. on carnival they had a waggon with a wrong translation of the song written on it(like "when there is no woman, there is no cry) and everybody dressed as rastamen with huge paper-only joints.. just ridiculous.
but when "No Woman No Cry" came out, Bob had already an international audience, i often wonder why nobody in the management noticed how easily it could be misunderstood.
i mean the song would sound equally good with "No, Woman, dont cry"
I used to work with a guy who was always singing 'No rum and no pie'
maybe that would have been better
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:29 pm
by ice
noyu wrote:I-Lion Tafari wrote :
but when "No Woman No Cry" came out, Bob had already an international audience, i often wonder why nobody in the management noticed how easily it could be misunderstood.
i mean the song would sound equally good with "No, Woman, dont cry"
he certainly did not have a huge audience at that time, we're talking about 1974; the tours in 1972 and 1973 were played in colleges, bars, etc - and what management? don taylor didn't enter the scene until 1975
using a simple "no" for "don't" or "is not" is a typical example for JA patois
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:06 pm
by Stella
I wouldn t be surprised if they put a gun to his head or someone he loved to make him sing it, if I remember well somebody had tried shooting him, tell me if I am wrong, we will never know why those lyrics ended there, rumor has it he did not write them.
Re: 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley - was he wrong, respectively what was he trying to say?
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:40 pm
by dan i
I suspect he meant that its not Atomic Energy that will do us in, rather our own selves. That has long been my reading of the lyric anyway.