Why Beating of the Drum?
Like Don Quixote, I have spent a portion of my life tilting at windmills with the same results as dear old Don. A good portion of my life has been spent in the beyond world of my imagination. A world where all is possible, and success in life is a daily occurrence.
Les Miserables was a hit Broadway show about the French Revolution.
The music is superb, the orchestration heavenly, and there is one song that I call my own, “Do You Hear The People Sing”
The song speaks of the French people being enslaved by the ruling monarchy, and the peoples desire to be free.
Slavery and freedom can have many different meanings to many different people. Some are slaves to the ideas of what society tells them to be, and in that slavery, their freedom to be is denied.
To be bound, to be constrained by societal dictates is loss of freedom and slavery to me. It is this desire to be free which binds me so closely to this song.
The first verse of the song is the heartbeat of this blog. Click the word “hear” to listen to the song.
Do you hear the people sing,
Singing the song of angry men,
This is the music of a people,
Who will not be slaves again.
When the beating of your heart,
Echos the beating of the drum,
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.
Will you join in our crusade,
Who will be strong and stand with me,
Beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see,
Then join in the fight that will give you the right to be free.