We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Free

from Fear Them Not by Melodeego

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    We are witnessing a global revolution. A movement of movements. From the Arab Spring, to the Occupy protests, to the world-wide push for climate protection, we are part of a major shift in human society. The more Melodeego gets involved in this movement, the more the band’s music is inspired by the people involved. “Fear Them Not” is Melodeego’s newest record, and is dedicated to every person who is standing up in the face of fear in order to change the world.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Fear Them Not via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $8 USD or more 

     

about

I was lying in bed, not wanting to get up, and it seemed almost out of nowhere that this absolutely awesome sense of euphoria overcame me...

I had been in a serious rut for a while. I was trying to prove myself both as an artist and an activist and I had these incredibly inflated images of what it meant to be either. Obviously, in my mind I didn't qualify, because to be either meant you had to be some kind of superhuman.

The song first started with the line, "Hey Atlas, put the world down, it's me who needs you most." It was supposed to be about someone in a relationship with a person who shoulders the world’s problems and how they never get any love from that 'atlas'. By the end of the song, I realized that I was both 'atlas' and the 'lover', shouldering all everyone's problems, and ignoring myself.

I wrote 3 verses and a chorus without even sitting up. I reached for my guitar and started figuring out the shit I was hearing in my head. I began singing the melody loudly which is something I had never done before while writing a song. I was always too insecure before, both about my voice and my songwriting ability. But this time, I didn't care.

It was as if I had been holding all the world's problems and suddenly they were lifted. I think it was the first time in years I felt so free.

lyrics

I wanna tell every person I see how I feel today
I'm steppin out again for the first time
I feel my knees lift me on up, and outta dismay
I feel my tongue turn prose to rhyme

Locked away, ball and chain, by a man who looks the same
But it's me who came not him, he's gone away
What was once opaque is now illuminated, was adrift has now found shore
I've been livin in a prison that's been limitin my vision of myself, but not no more

Why can't we see
How easy
It is to be free

I've been missin’ what it is that gets us out of bed
I've been swimming circles in this swamp that occupy my head
You looked into my crying eyes, and a human you did see
Turns out what I was looking for the whole time was looking right at me

Why can't we see
How easy
It is to be free

credits

from Fear Them Not, released April 12, 2012

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Melodeego image

Melodeego Boston, Massachusetts

Melodeego is Music In Action...
...and funky Soul N Roll for a new generation of world changers. The show is a blast of raw energy waking up crowds to the moment we're living in. Audiences dance their asses off, sing their hearts out, and then fight with passion for justice, the environment, and human life.

Melodeego delivers CLEAN ENERGY IN ACTION with a BICYCLE POWERED SOUND SYSTEM. ... more

contact / help

Contact Melodeego

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Melodeego, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now