My Gen X Playlist: One Love – Bob Marley

I’m fortunate to live in a diverse area. I’m surrounded by all walks of life. So much so, I don’t think twice about it. It’s my everyday norm.

Yeah, we have our share of oddballs out here in LA. There’s some truth to the nickname Hollyweird. Everywhere has their own fringe population. Maybe ours is a little more crazy/interesting and out there from the rest.

So freedom to me is acceptance. Allowing everyone the opportunity for happiness regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation. This may not be the most popular view in some parts of the country, but thankfully it’s widely accepted here. Life is difficult enough without having to throw an extra monkey wrench into the mix. So let’s try something new and all try to keep our tool boxes closed and see how this social experiment turns out. The end results just might surprise you.

Bob Marley’s One Love was released in 1965. It’s a song of inclusion long before the DEI movement was a thing.

‘One Love’ has a fairly transparent message on the surface – it’s a song about love, peace, and unity in a similar vein to John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ or George Harrison’s ‘Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth).

Ultimately though, ‘One Love’ is a song where Bob hopes his message can transcend religion, race, nationality, borders, cultures, and generations, coming together for a common cause: humanity.

– smoothradio

We brewed our own beer in college. I remember singing along to Bob Marley’s album, Legend, as it played from beginning to end in the background as we stirred the barely and hops over the stove. We wanted to make sure our home brew fermented with a healthy dose of good karma mixed in. After weeks of fermentation and bottling, I remember we popped the tops for our first cheers. We lifted our glasses and took our first swig. It tasted terrible. We didn’t care because it wasn’t just about the taste. It was about so much more. We gladly enjoyed emptying the bottles and drank the entire batch.

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One love! One heart!
Let's get together and feel alright
Hear the children crying (One love!)
Hear the children crying (One heart!)
Saying, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright."
Saying, "Let's get together and feel alright." Wo wo-wo wo-wo!

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love!)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One heart!)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?

One love! What about the one heart? One heart!
What about the—Let's get together and feel alright
As it was in the beginning (One love!)
So shall it be in the end (One heart!)
Alright!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright
Let's get together and feel alright
One more thing!

Let's get together to fight this holy Armageddon (One love!)
So when the man comes there will be no, no doom (one song!)
Have pity on those whose chances grows thinner
There is no hiding place from the Father of Creation
Singing!

One love! What about the one heart? One heart!
What about the—Let's all get together and feel alright
I'm pleading to mankind! (One love!)
Oh, Lord! (One heart) Wo-ooh
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright
Let's get together and feel alright
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel alright
Let's get together and feel alright