"This Haunted River" Lyrical interpretation (C) 2020

My piece "Haunted River" that I performed at the online openmic (#ShelterNplay in Eureka California) is very interesting and foreshadowing. The lyrics were inspired  from April 2009,  I would sit at the banks of the Sunflower River, in Clarksdale Mississippi, with papers in hand. Written on these papers were some awful thoughts. Dreadful things that hold one back from enjoying life. The subject matter was from ways people had done me wrong, the way I would feel in certain situations, and things that happened to me. Than  I would burn these papers to cleanse myself. 

On Saturday, April 23, 2016, I returned to visit friends in Clarksdale. I made sure to go to the Sunflowe River banks. That night, I had an openmic, at #SynergyNights in Jackson Mississippi.  I began to write the lines, of a spoken word piece I called "Haunted River."\

 On a Friday July 17, 2020, I decided to revisit  "Haunted River".  The host gives a challenge to write a song on a topic of his choosing. On this particular Friday, the challenge was to do a song about the sea. I chose Haunted River. I added some chords to make "Haunted River" into a song.

Looking at the lyrics now There seems to be some foreshadowing of future events of this current time.

The lyric, "Which way you gonna go when that whirl wind blow," references covid.

"Your hate became my hate, my hate became yours-somewhere in that we found peace there," references social movements groups.

"They're coming up with this master plan to divide us," is a reference to various political views

"While the waters of this Haunted River rises," is a reference to storms and even the recent damn break in China  

clip of original performance, click blue  Haunted River 2016

clip of song, click blue  Haunted River

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