Sōja (総社市, Sōja-shi?) is a city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
As of April 30, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 67,357, with 24,623 households and a population density of 317.72 persons per km². The total area is 212.00 km².
The city was founded on March 31, 1954.
On March 22, 2005 the villages of Yamate and Kiyone, both from Tsukubo District, were merged into Sōja.
Sōja is surrounded by the following cities and towns, all within Okayama Prefecture.
Sōja has been twinned with Chino, Nagano in Japan since 1984.
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Michael Franti was born in Oakland, California to an Irish-German-French mother and an African-American and Native American father. However, his mother made an adoption plan for him because she was afraid her family would not accept him. He was adopted by Carole Wisti and Charles Franti, a Finnish-American couple in Oakland, who had three biological children and two adopted African American sons. Charles Franti was a professor in the department of epidemiology and preventive medicine of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and died in 2003. Michael's four siblings are named Rebecca, Sara, Dan, and Matthew. Michael attended Davis Senior High School and graduated from the University of San Francisco. During his time at school there he met a priest who taught him how to tell a story on paper, and soon he was writing poetry. He purchased a bass at a pawn shop and started creating music inspired by hip hop, punk, and reggae that was being played on the campus radio station. He has two sons: Ade with his wife Tara Franti-Rye, and Cappy from a previous relationship.
For so long InI feel
as if I'm not a part of this world.
for all of it's representatives
are so secretive.
So far, there's very little love,
and an abundance of hatred.
Now is this the legacy
I leave for my children?
When they think that it's
Peace and safety,
that's when you know
it's a sudden destruction.
Living in Rome there is no security
One God, One Aim, (move forward)
One Destiny.
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Revolution Cry
No, Jah will never forsake I
Freedom isn't freedom if you force it
And peace achieved through war
is no peace. Equality don't mean nothing
if you fake it, and we already know
more than they believe.
How many of us feel superior
To others in some part of our lives
See, man has always strived
to be the better, and from his brothers
his true feelings hide.
Revolution
I never really got why we're here
Just look at all we build in our lives
And we all disappear
A few of us are born with so much
While most of us just chasing down a dream that we just can't touch
So why we try so hard in this place?
When pain and suffering is a guarantee
And happiness is a phase
I wonder if one day we're at peace
Or will this whole world just become like the middle east?
(Chorus)
But when I (we) was (were) younger, when I (we) was (were) younger
I had the answers, I've got to say
But all of my answers, now that I'm older
Turned into questions, in front of me
I wonder where we go when we die
If there is anything past our lost sun and our sky?
Cuz airports only take us so high
Is it hidden in the stars?
What's the answer to your soul lying?
I wonder do we get to come back
I wonder if I will remember these questions I've asked
Or will I just star over again?
I hope it's not too hard to find all of my old friends.
(Chorus)
I wonder if we get one true love
Or maybe there's a few out there
Or maybe not even one
I wonder if it's made up by man
I wonder if love is what we make with our own two hands
I wonder why I write all these songs
I wonder if you know what you're saying when you sing along
And will you know my name when I'm gone?
Or are you just too sick of these love songs?
You can search the world for signs of life and realize the truth is in your
Heart you can try to become who you want and never get away from who you
Are you can trust another like no other watch them fall and then you fall
Apart it there's you apart always see myself alone but in my darkest hours
There you are
Chorus:
So I Can Say Oh Now Oh Now Oh Now Now Now Now Now (2x)
Oh Now You Gotta Slow Down
Oh now all I have Is Now
Oh Now oh Now now now now
I've been all around the world to find it travel east and west like
Everyday I've been high and low since I have lost it how do I get back to
Yesterday it feels like a game I have seen the look in peoples eyes
Sometimes and all I do is chase then away cause I have been all around the
World just to find it every time I do I don't let is stay I chase it away
From the very first
Time I saw you
I feel my old life
And it was all new
I felt my knees get weak
My heart went crazy
I felt some yes & no,
I even felt some maybes
I'd climb a mountain top,
I'd swim the ocean, too
Get down o my knees,
But only if it was for you
I think that I would do
I'm amazed in the way that we've got this far
At the pace we're going and the things we've done
Amazed in the way that we're all still here
Just looking at our last fifty years
And I'll task, in the west in the years to come
Does the dollar really matter when our whole world is gone?
Worry about yourself, while the world stills turns
Waiting until we watch it burn
Stuck in a revolving door
Caught in our race for sure
Just look into your eyes
Now do we have the strength to survive
Stuck in a revolving door
Caught in our race for sure
Just look into your eyes
Now do we have the strength to survive if I live here
It's not like cigarettes, not like your tv's,
Bigger and brighter than any other thing,
Just consum less, and giving back more
And live our old ways at the door
And I'll wait, if we don't
We can kiss it goodbye
Our sun, our moon, our earth and our sky
Our world we will recover in a billion years
But if we're not living here
When we are..
Stuck in a revolving door
Caught in our race for sure
Just look into your eyes
Now do we have the strength to survive
When we are..
Stuck in a revolving door
Caught in our race for sure
Just look into your eyes
Now do we have the strength to survive
C'mon do we have strength to survive [x2]
C'mon do we have strength to the [x2]
Do we have strength to survive
When we are..
Stuck in a revolving door
Caught in our pace for sure
Just look into your eyes
It's hard for me when I
Think about the things that never been
They keep coming back again
Like they've got something to prove
I love my memories but they have a way
Of controlling me at times
And I'm so lost without you yeah yeah
And I can't get far from it.
And from what went wrong
And I know it's stupid cuz it's been so long.
But father I give away the more I hold on
It's just this feeling I get
It's like I'm not done yet
I'm not done yet
I think about those times
When we were young
And everything was so brand new
And our words were so true and you
Looked into my eyes that one last time
If I had known back then
What I'd be living with today
We might have stayed but
I can't get far from it.
And from what went wrong
And I know it's stupid
Cuz it's been so long.
But father I give away
The more I hold on
It's like I try to forget
Some how I'm not done yet
I'm not done yet
It's hard for me when I
Think about the things that never been
They keep coming back again
Like they've got something to prove
Even asleep, mentality's awake...
Nobody realizes how much we can take...
Let's save the future of the world for our sake...
Crawl forwards ever, backwards never...
We were the students but now we're the ones who teach...
We were the children and your lies we did believe...
But we ain't kids no more and we don't need a speech...
Go forwards ever, backwards never.
And truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how.
We will never do what they have done, under jah's sun.
Truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how.
We will never do what they have... we will never do what they have done.
You're right and we're forever wrong,
Iraq and afghanistan and vietnam...
Bp oil and your hydrogen bomb, you go forwards never, backwards ever...
The planes in the air, look down, animals scarce...
Oil is water now and water's everywhere.
We cry f**k your system cause I'm not with em.
Truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how...
We will never do what they have done, under jah's sun.
Truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how...
We will never do what they have... we will never do what they have done.
Truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how...
We will never do what they have done, under jah's sun.
Truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how...
We will never do what they have done. oh no no.
Truth and right is yours and...
Truth and right is yours and...
Truth and right is yours and...
Truth and right is yours and...
Truth and right is yours to control now, there's no way no how...
We will never do what they have...
We will never do what they have...
It occurred to me as things are slowing down that it's always much better
When you're around, and it's slowly turning me upside down (upside down X2)
You can be who you want to
You can see who you want to
There's nothing I can tell you now except
I'm always thinking of you
Even when I don't want to
In more ways than I can count
Cuz I didn't meant to let you go
Should've been the first one to let you know
Change your mind
And let me slide just one more time
It doesn't have to be this way
We could stop fighting and wake up in your place, or
I could go
Leave it to chance and just let this go on...
And when we're in the future
And now is a million miles away
Will we start to reconsider what now belongs to yesterday
This whole life is moving fast for me, is it for you the same?
And do you dream and when you do, do you wake up saying my name?
You can be who you want to
You can see who you want to
There's nothing I can tell you now except
I'm always thinking of you
Even when I don't want to
In more ways than I can count
Cuz I didn't meant to let you go
Should've been the first one to let you know
Change your mind
And let me slide just one more time
It doesn't have to be this way
We could stop fighting and wake up in your place, or
I could go
Leave it to chance and just let it go, let it go
We were only children still deciding who to be
I remember following you, hoping you'd look back at me
But then a band became my life
And you heard California's nice
And then we go older like people do
When I look to see the sun, I can feel positive and negative at once
Cuz it could be a brand new day or the same old one
So I wait just to see exactly what kind of day it's gonna be
I can feel that either way I, I guess I got lucky
Cuz I could be gone today, tomorrow could be close or it could be so far
Away
And I guess what I'm trying to say, no matter how it goes down now I feel so
Happy
When I look the see the moon, I can feel those before me who've all done it
I can see through all me troubles and somehow they got thru
Cuz were all family even if we don't act like it or just don't see
I guess I'm thankful for who you think we could be
Cuz I could be gone today, tomorrow could be close or it could be so far
Away
And I guess what I'm trying to say, no matter how it goes down now I feel so
Happy, today
There could maybe be something else,
Not something you see or touch but something that you felt
And there could maybe be a road
Like underground sin, it stays in the corners of my soul
Cuz I could be gone today, tomorrow could be close or it could be so far
Away
And I guess what I'm trying to say, no matter how it goes down now I feel so
Happy
Cuz I could be gone today, tomorrow could be close or it could be so far
Away
And I guess what I'm trying to say, no matter how it goes down now I feel so
what do we really need in this life
I look at myself sometimes like its not right
people out there with no food at night
and we say care, but we dont so we all lie
what if theres more to this and one day
we become what we do not what we say
we end up in all the shit that theyre in
and roles are reversed and it was different
and we were the ones with nothing to eat
we were the ones with blood in our streets
we were the ones with only our screams
and they were the ones just watching on tv
and we were the ones broke down and torn
with our life on our back and our wife in our arms
and they were the ones like damn thats so sad
and we were the ones like...
Nothing ever changes
its the only thing i know
that nothing ever changes
im looking down this road
and nothing ever changes...no
no nothing ever changes
Look at your dreams and your intention
selfish it is for you to mention
turning your thousands into millions
marry a model and you have some children
well they got their dreams to i imagine
like what if it wont come back to kill them
sleeping at night without a murder
in some little town you never heard of
now look at your nightmares
and all of your worst fears
your car and your house
and your girl and it stops there
all these things you cant imagine losing
like oh no what if that happened to me
but what you got theyll never have
to be like you ya, to have your chance
to be like you before theyre gone oh no ohh
nothing ever changes
at least thats how we act
like nothing ever changes
like god has got our backs
like nothing ever changes
im looking down this road
and i can see this pain is
its the only kind i know
maybe we need more shoes on our feet
maybe we need more clothes and tv's
maybe we need more cash and jewelry
or maybe we dont know what we need
maybe we need to wana fix it
maybe stop talking
maybe start listening
maybe we need to look at this world
less like a square and more like a circle
maybe just maybe gods not unfair
maybe were all his kids and hes up there
maybe he loves us for all our races
maybe he hates us when were all so racist
maybe he sees us when we dont care
and its heaven right here but its hell over there
and maybe the meek will inherit this earth
cuz it was written before so...
everything changes
and nothing stays the same
no everything changes
and if you feel ashamed
maybe you should change this
before it gets to late
maybe you should change this
my brother were standing at the gate
oh everything changes, changes, changes
maybe you should change it, change it, change it
everything changes, changes, changes
Why do we have to break down to know if it's real?
Why do we have to hurt ourselves to learn how to feel?
Why do we learn the right way by doing the wrong?
And why does it start to make sense when it's in a song?
I know that you told me once, but would you please tell me again,
When do I kiss goodbye my troubles? the struggle never seems to end?
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, cause I can wait
I know there's somebody out there who knows what I mean:
Silent on the outside, but inside you scream
Trying to let it out, but it's just too much,
And then it all comes out when we're so drunk
I know that you told me once, but would you please tell me again,
When do I kiss goodbye my troubles? the struggle never seems to end?
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, I can wait
Truth always so painful, and lies so easy to take
But don't worry, cause I can wait
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, cause I can wait, I can wait
Truth always so painful, and lies so easy to take
But don't worry, cause I can wait
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, cause I can wait, I can wait
Truth always so painful, and lies so easy to take
But don't worry, cause I can wait
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
In two months I'm through the doorway,
Put my guitar on the floor,
And you will sit and tell me,
That you can't take anymore,
And you will sit and wonder,
What I can only speculate,
That time is going to be telling us what we don't want it to say.
So just be with me now,
With your hair wrapped around my fingers,
Where your words turn into whispers,
Where you fall asleep and dream, dream,
That you could be with me now,
As I keep track on my fingers,
Of the cities and the strangers,
Of the pieces of my dreams.
It's been so long since I've seen you,
Almost forgot your face,
And time it brings me full close to,
But it does the opposite for me.
So I've got my hallways and my hotels
And a ticket with my name
It's been too long since I've seen you
And there's so much to say.
But just be with me now,
With your hair wrapped around my fingers,
Where your words turn into whispers,
Where you fall asleep and dream, dream, dream
That you can be with me now.
As I keep track on my fingers
All the cities and the strangers
Prison blues stand an issue,
even when our suits ain't blue
We got shade's downs on the daily,
shanks ooobs so vicious too.
Blue walls vocking down the cell block,
wooden skellots down the hall
What you gonna make my prison thicker, higha shal fo work
I lift the hema hema seven,
and let that fall upon the stove,
And let the shaly chones define me,
and build these walls I call my own
I got scars like holly mammoth,
and I don't seem to fit no more
Yet I wake myself each morning,
just prepare for what's in store
So tonight is cold as bullets,
so please walk up and down my tear,
Tell myself the end is coming soon, chase away fear,
That some fear got me drinking,
put these straps on down my arm,
Passing fear has been inside of me ever since I was born.
I lift the hema hema seven, a
nd let that fall upon the stove,
And let the shady shades define me, and build these walls
I call my own I got scars like holly mammoth,
and I don't seem to fit no more
Yet I wake myself each morning,
just prepare for what's in store...for me
Freedom is just a test of memory,
I lose more and more each day
Can't forgive the man aside me,
my tranquility is there
Every day is like every other
Every day is like every other
Every day is like every other
Every day is like..let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Ive run my rout in here They knocked me down in here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me out of here
Let me breath let me go now you want, you said so
Let me out of here
Why do we have to break down to know if it's real?
Why do we have to hurt ourselves to learn how to feel?
Why do we learn the right way by doing the wrong?
And why does it start to make sense when its in a song?
I know that you told me once, but would you please tell me again,
When do I kiss goodbye my troubles? the struggle never seems to end?
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, cause I can wait
I know there's somebody out there who knows what I mean:
Silent on the outside, but inside you scream
Trying to let it out, but it's just too much,
And then it all comes out when we're so drunk
I know that you told me once, but would you please tell me again,
When do I kiss goodbye my troubles? the struggle never seems to end?
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, I can wait
Truth always so painful, and lies so easy to take
But don't worry, cause I can wait
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, cause I can wait, I can wait
Truth always so painful, and lies so easy to take
But don't worry, cause I can wait
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
But don't worry, cause I can wait, I can wait
Truth always so painful, and lies so easy to take
But don't worry, cause I can wait
Why is the truth always so painful?
Why are the lies so easy to take?
Alright... Alright... Alright
Oh, it's not too late
It's not too late
I mean everyone, everyone,
we seal our fate
Lord, there's not too much for me to say
This whole thing is our responsability
And I mean everyone, everyone
Is under Jah sun, it's your sun
I mean everyday, everyday
Or when we're all here, we're all here
No use in firing your brother
We're all in it together
This whole Earth is your mother
And I work for the Father
It's not too late
It's not too late
I mean everyone, everyone,
we seal our fate
Lord, there's not too much for me to say
This whole thing is our responsability
And I mean your hands, your hands
Are part of His plan, His plan
It's like all here, we're all here
For one reason, and it's clear
No use in firing you sister
There's no way you can get her
I mean, this whole Earth is your Mother
And I work for the Father
It's not too late
Oh yeah...
I know you feel like you're, you're all alone,
And all you can depend on now,
Is your flesh and your bones.
So look around now,
And let it talk to you, yeah
And when those colors run together,
Remember, that Jah is listening now.
When you wake, He's listening now,
When you sleep, He's listening now,
When you're smiling, He's listening now,
When you weep, He's listening now,
If you don't, He's listening now,
And if you need, He's listening now,
When you talk, He's listening now,
When you don't speak...
I know you think that you know,
Real and fake,
Well sometimes we all that he is,
Truly just what we made.
I know you feel like you're in total control,
But when things spin out of your hands,
you should know, you should know, you should know...
That we all fall down,
And we will one day
We all land here,
we all drift away.
We all stand on this Earth,
The same ground,
We're all so lost, but I've found,
Jah is listening now.
When you wake, He's listening now,
When you sleep, He's listening now,
When you're smiling, He's listening now,
When you weep, He's listening now,
When you don't, He's listening now,
When you need, He's listening now,
When you talk, He's listening now,
When you don't speak, He's listening now.
He's listening now,
He's listening now,
Chorus:
I know it`s odd now for you to see
You can`t change the way it was
Or how is kinda be.
Am I what she wants or
Just what she needs?
And if is she still loves me?
She still loves me.
Where`s her sweater?
Is not in her car
Is not at her friend`s house
Is not at the bar
I think you better,
Think with the heart
Take a look at yourself
And see how lucky you really are.
I don`t believe in love capture on
Neither does she
But you know that now
You should forget her
Cause I`ve got her heart
She hates the way that I terry or.
Chorus
What did she...
What took her so long?
Where`s she been to,
Where`s she gone?
But does she think about,
Or she sees no time?
And you are fevering
Rolling around
What does she talks about
When her father calls?
She says what you said
She says that...
What does she talk about when mother calls?
You don`t come up, came up anymore.
What do we do when life take us so long?
Why do we waste so much time, I know, we`d never know.
Why do we stay here, why don`t we go?
Why does everybody think that they can do both?
Chorus
I know it`s odd now for you to see
You can`t change things about how it use to be
And I`m what she wants
And not just she needs.
Baby I'm sorry
For whatever it was I always did;
The way it went down and it always is;
The way that I am makes it all my fault?
You know if I could change who I am right now
I wouldn't do it no, no...
And if I could make all my past be gone
I wouldn't change a thing, no.
'cause when we first met all you wanted was me... yeah, but -
Now all you want is your apology from me...
for being who I said I'd be, baby
I'm sorry
For whatever it was I always did;
The way it went down and it always is;
The way that I am makes it all my fault.
When two people start to fall in love
you fall up then you fall right down.
'cause it never seems to be what it was
when we're clutching straws and drowning in love.
I don't feel bad about admitting the truth,
'cause honesty's my policy with you.
You say that I'm lying, I say you want me to...
but I love you...
Well, I'm sorry
For whatever it was I always did;
The way it went down and it always is;
The way that I am makes it all my fault.
I'm gonna be me it's my fault
I'd feel a lot better if you said it's my fault
Sorry-
For whatever it was and all
the way that it went down and all
the way I am it's all
my fault, my fault I'm sorry.
I take it all back now
It's you and me, it's always been
And how I feel about you, there's no end
But you make me chase you around, all around
And then you need me there when you fall down, down
And when this dance is done,
You and me are still the only one
Well since our time begun
And I'm still with you even when your gone
When this dance is done,
You and me are still the only one
Well since our time begun
And I'm still with you even when your...
So I start it, and you stop it
I want it knowing that you're walking away
I start it, and you stop it
I want it knowing that you're walking away
I start it, and you stop it
I want it knowing that you're walking away
I start it, and you stop it
Ya-e ya-e yah-a
It's you and me, back again
Don't introduce me to all your new friends
Why do you make me chase you around?
Why do your words make me not make a sound, sound?
And when this dance is done,
You and me are still the only one
Yes since time begun
I'm still with you even when your gone
When this dance is done,
You and me are still the only one
Yes since time begun
I'm still with you even when your.
I start it, and you stop it
I want it knowing that you're walking away
I start it, and you stop it
I want it knowing that you're walking away
I start it, and you stop it
I want it knowing that you're walking away
I start it, and you stop it
Ya-e ya-e yah
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