Results for “inherited injustice”

Songs

Minutemen

A terse, two-minute sketch that moves from a blunt political indictment of poverty and inherited injustice to a single, almost…

economic inequality inherited injustice the US-Mexico border region

Mission of Burma

A litany of disillusionment — with inherited heroes, parental teaching, and a friend's hollow ambition — builds toward a chorus…

disillusionment loss of faith/idealism generational inheritance

Pink Floyd

This short piece establishes the loss of Pink's father as the first foundational trauma in the album's central metaphor, framing…

absence and abandonment childhood trauma war's domestic aftermath

Thin Lizzy

This is Thin Lizzy's suite-like tribute to Irish identity, stitching together folk balladry, mythic invocation, and a rapid-fire…

Irish cultural inheritance myth and storytelling exile and longing for home

Otis Redding

Otis Redding's rendition of Sam Cooke's civil-rights-era anthem transforms a carefully wrought protest song into a raw,…

racial injustice and endurance faith versus doubt family and disappointment

Sam Cooke

A first-person account of a life lived under constant pressure — poverty, fear of death, segregation, betrayal by one's own —…

racial injustice and segregation endurance and faith mortality and doubt

The Temptations

A mid-80s Temptations single that pitches courtly-gentleman romance as a self-help pitch, with the narrator cataloguing small…

traditional courtship gender roles nostalgia for inherited values

Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR's version of this traditional folk-blues song reworks a prison-labor lament into swampy rock, keeping the old imagery of…

incarceration and forced labor longing for deliverance folk mythology / superstition