4th of July Songs
Jul. 4th, 2025 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitSo this year I have two songs to plug for these times. The first is my annual suggestion of Lucy Wainright Roche's "Fifth of July" which has been getting ever more relevant in these times. It's a commentary on the duality of America, and a patriotism that's about worrying about the direction of the country. ("And I'd like to just run but when all's said and done, I'm still in the business of trying.")
The other one, new for this year, is Sassafrass's "Somebody Will," which I would not normally consider a Fourth of July song. It's about the quest to form a Mars colony, after all. But what it's also about is striving for a future you are never going to live to see, and staying on track with not giving up on that future just because you won't live to see it. And the reality is that bringing the country back from this experience is going to be a generations-long project, something most of us won't live to see. I might, if I'm not killed outright by whatever comes, but I might not, and most of my friends are older than me and probably never will. But you do it anyway so other people might live to see it.
The other one, new for this year, is Sassafrass's "Somebody Will," which I would not normally consider a Fourth of July song. It's about the quest to form a Mars colony, after all. But what it's also about is striving for a future you are never going to live to see, and staying on track with not giving up on that future just because you won't live to see it. And the reality is that bringing the country back from this experience is going to be a generations-long project, something most of us won't live to see. I might, if I'm not killed outright by whatever comes, but I might not, and most of my friends are older than me and probably never will. But you do it anyway so other people might live to see it.
