MUSIC

Innocence Bound - 1.4mb

Run for your Life - 1.4mb

The Phoenix - 1.6 mb

These are not full songs.

Lyrics:

Run for our Life

 

The Story of Emmett Till

"The Story of Emmett Till" is a trilogy telling the
 true story of a fourteen year-old African American
 boy, who was brutally beaten, mutilated 
and then murdered in Mississippi in 1955, for whistling
 at a white woman. Two men were arrested and tried
 for the crime, but were found not guilty by an
 all-white jury, and set free. The murder of Emmett 
Till, amoung other incidents, is widely believed 
to be one of the many triggering factors of the American 
Civil Rights Movement. 

Part 1: Innocence Bound
Is an acoustic instrumental. The
twelve-string guitars and swirling organ give the
song an angelic sound, that suggests the young, guiltless
life of Emmett Till.
July 25, 1941, Emmett Louis Till was born
in Chicago's Cook County Hospital, to Louise Mamie Till.
Raised in a loving home,he grew into a joyously
mischievous, open-hearted boy.

Part 2: Run for Your Life
With its pulsating bass and drums, and murky slide
guitar, one can almost see the small, desperate
Emmett running for his life from the murderous rogues.
August 28, 1955, On a family visit to the town of Money,
Mississippi, a speech impediment, mis-heard by suspicious
towns-folk, provoked gossip that Emmett had whistled at
a white, female store clerk. 14 year-old Emmett Till was
kidnapped in the night, mutilated, and murdered. Three days
later, his brutally beaten body was discovered floating in the
Tallahatchie River. August 29, 1955, J.W. Milam and Roy
Bryant were arrested for the kidnapping of Emmett Till.
September 6, 1955, the Grand Jury indicted Milam and
Bryant on kidnapping and murder charges. Although his
killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were
both acquitted quickly by an all-white jury, after funds were
raised by the white public for their defense.

Part 3: The Phoenix
It is a raucous tribute to the life of a blameless child whose
death brought life to a movement that brought so much
good to the world, out the ashes of evil.
The justified outrage sparked by this mindless crime became a
catalyst for action, uniting the thinking people in the
war against racism, ignorance and violence. "We often think of
the modern Civil Rights Movement as beginning in Montgomery in
1955, because of the of the dramatic arrest of Rosa Parks, and
the emergence of Dr. King, but that is not so. There is a scientific
theory that the earth was born through the Big Bang. One
could make the case that Emmett Till was the"Big Bang",
the Tallahatchie River was the"Big Bang" of the Civil Rights
Movement." Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Chicago, January 11, 2003

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