Scarlet Jewels: The forever Seizing of Days
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picture2003-02-02 21:08, by Julie Solheim-Roe

An incredible band from Glastonbury called Seize The Day has made it into the top four of the eighty bands originally nominated for the BBC Radio 3 World Music Audience Awards. They're asking friends and activist-networks to put the word out for them everywhere, and vote one more time:
- If we win the award, it will show just how huge the movement for change has become, and in turn gain more exposure for our campaigns.

So please follow this link to the BBC Radio 3 web-site and click on
REGISTER in order to vote for Seize The Day.
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To vote in the final round they ask you to register with the BBCi, which involves making up a username and password and giving any email address - it takes 10 seconds, then you can vote!

Seize The Day are an environmental activist band from Glastonbury who campaign for social justice, a GMO free world, peace and all sorts of good causes. .... If you want to hear their music, there are five Seize The Day songs on the Radio 3 web site.

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3 Feb 2003 @ 18:20 by sharie : United States
For our viewing audience, here are the lyrics to *United States* recorded by Seize the Day:

It could've been Manhattan on the day the market fell
And it could've been a candy-store in Kandahar as well
And she might have been a moslem, but it's kind've hard to tell
When your body's ground to zero and your skin's been fried to hell


So tell me it's the war to end all war, or don't tell me nothin'
'Cos if this sacrifice was not for peace, it was not worth making.
Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you -
Just when it hit you - There's other people hurt as much as you.
And grief is no excuse for what you do.


High-flyers at the corporation's daisy-cutting edge
They hold each other's hands and plummet from the window ledge
And the monitors have melted on the coffee-deal which meant
5000 farmers wondering where their livelihood just went.


America, my family, the whole world feels your pain …
And before this war is over, you'll make sure we do again.
Even as the tower tumbled on that fire-fighting team
We wondered who you'd barbecue for puncturing your dream

So tell me it's the war to end all war, or don't tell me nothin'
'Cos if this sacrifice does not bring peace, then it was not worth making.
Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you -
But it still don't it hit you - There's other people feel as much as you.
And freedom's no excuse for what you do.

I am not an Islamicist, religion's not my thing,
But they're friendlier than Christians and I like the way they sing,
And I want my sisters free to burn the burkha if they choose
Then lie awake and calculate what weight they need to lose

So tell me it's the war to end all war, or don't tell me nothin'
'Cos if this sacrifice don't change the world, it was not worth making.
Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you -
When will it hit you - There's other people need as much as you.

And greed is no excuse for what you do.

You're beautiful, big-hearted, and in many ways you're free
And you're smart enough to get the world how you want it to be
So it's hard for me to tell you what you shouldn't have to hear:
Your nation is that terrorist most human beings fear -


Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia and Nam,
Cambodia, Grenada, Chile, and Afghanistan,
Palestinian and Iraqi, and some more you never knew -
United states of people who deserved as much as you

So tell me that you don't support this war, or don't tell me nothin'
'Cos if this song of mine don't change your heart, then it was not worth singing.
But I believe you did your best, chasing life and happiness,
Never wondered never guessed, how the news had been suppressed
Of a never-ending killing-fest, rip the kid from the Mama's breast,
Shrapnel thru her daddy's chest while we're all singing "Glory Hallelujah!" -
I'm talking to ya - Somebody made a killing in your name.
So take your power back, or take the blame.



*** My favorite lines:

'Cos if this sacrifice is not for peace, it was not worth making.

There's other people hurt as much as you.
And grief is no excuse for what you do.

America, my family, the whole world feels your pain …
And before this war is over, you'll make sure we do again.


But it still don't it hit you - There's other people feel as much as you.
And freedom's no excuse for what you do.

When will it hit you - There's other people need as much as you.
And greed is no excuse for what you do.

You're beautiful, big-hearted, and in many ways you're free
And you're smart enough to get the world how you want it to be
So it's hard for me to tell you what you shouldn't have to hear:

Your nation is that terrorist most human beings fear -

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia and Nam,
Cambodia, Grenada, Chile, and Afghanistan,
Palestinian and Iraqi, and some more you never knew -
United states of people who deserved as much as you


But I believe you did your best, chasing life and happiness,
Never wondered never guessed, how the news had been suppressed

I'm talking to ya - Somebody made a killing in your name.
So take your power back, or take the blame.

***Wow, they're singin' songs about us, and I agree with every word  

11 Feb 2003 @ 21:37 by jewel : tears
I heard that song last July at the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury. I was crying and the whole room was quiet==well those who were listening. I had a strange feeling that they were singing to me.... you should hear the song actually sung. It moves you beyond....  

7 Aug 2007 @ 08:57 by Sonia @60.50.248.239 : Seize The Day
This song makes me cry every time I here it. I didn't know who sang it, or what it was called. Thanks!  

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