i really don't care...

you know, sometimes i really don't care if you don't care to hear my stories... do they make you uncomfortable? well damn, they should, you know that. and i got to tell them, because they've started scratching again, because i'm reading about more of them every day and they're clawing to come out... you know? you know what that feels like, because sometimes it hurts and sometimes you just ignore it and let them scratch and cover it all up 'cuz it's easier that way, until in the stillness of the night, you remember and they rip ya one more time.

sorry if you don't want to hear it, i gots to tell it now. you, whoever you are, stifled them and told me you don't want to hear, and you told me there won't be no change... you won't change anything and you can't change it and it's not even that way, young man, so you just take your ideas and your ideals and your dreams and put them away 'cuz we don't got no room for those 'round here.

but see good sir, i believe in a revolution that's been happenin' since the beginning of time and it's still happenin' in all these small revolutions that happen every time someone loves somebody else and every time somebody somewhere says, "no. i'm mad as hell, and i'm not going to take it anymore." and they stand up and they scream and yell and say somebody listen to me because this is wrong and i want it to stop and i ain't never gonna be free until it stops.

until it stops.

so... it's gonna make you uncomfortable, and i'm already uncomfortable with this. but i'm real sorry because these stories, it's time to tell them. mebbe you need to hear them, but i think i need to tell them. and since they are demanding to be told, i ain't gonna be free until that women who told me her story is free. because somewhere in the space between, our freedom will come together.

i will tell your story. along with everyone else who's saying, "i'm mad as hell, and i'm not gonna take it anymore."

we believe in revolution. but it's nothing new. it's just a love and a search and a hope in all the things that we feel there must be to life and we are going to find them.

and someday, we're gonna be free.