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Jay Rapoport featuring Rachel Mylan - We Can't Go On Like This

from Attitude of Gratitude by Jay Rapoport

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* Written after so many mass shootings I can’t reminder which one it’s about. It’s about all of them. We can’t go on like this.

* Features my longtime friend and musical collaborator Rachel Mylan on duet vocals - this is a protest song and she is a social justice warrior. I wrote it for her to sing but she insisted that I sing along. We worked out the duet on her front porch and later filmed the video in my basement family room. Every time we worked on it I wondered if the mass shooting problem would go away and we wouldn’t need to sing it anymore. Sometimes I thought about removing the one explicit reference to guns (“it’s mundane to hear of a shooting”) to make it a more general song about our political divides. But even the pandemic couldn’t cure mass shootings, so the song stands.

* Originally released as a Facebook video, it was premiered at the URJ Biennial gathering in Chicago, December 2019

GRATITUDE REFLECTION: Who can you talk to with whom you disagree? Where can you find common ground? Send them a message about that thing today.

lyrics

"WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS" (by Jay Rapoport)

If you’re surprised you ain’t been paying attention
To tragedies too numerous to mention
So I gotta put my two cents in
Cuz we can’t go on like this

It’s mundane to hear of a shooting
And we can’t agree on a solution
So we fight this battle we’re losing
And we can’t go on like this

So we wake up each morning
And pray for a change
While we keep doing the same things day after day
But there’s only sorrow and tears and pain
If we can’t find a different way
Oh, if we can’t find a different way

Woah...

You say don’t make this about voting
And it’s far too soon to be so outspoken
Can’t you see our poor world is broken
And we can’t go on like this

I wish we could all work together
And find ourselves a way to be better
To heal the hurting forever
Cuz we can’t go on like this

So we wake up each morning
And pray for a change
While we keep doing the same things day after day
But there’s only sorrow and tears and pain
If we can’t find a different way
Lord, if we can’t find a different way

So don’t shut me out, I won’t ignore you
Take just a minute for a different point of view
Things are so bad we’ve got nothing left to lose

You know it’s in the cracks

That the light pours through

Ooh...

Let’s wake up tomorrow morning and work toward a change
And stop doing the same things day after day
And push through the sorrow and tears and pain

Maybe we can find a different way someday
Maybe we can find a different way

credits

from Attitude of Gratitude, released January 21, 2022
Music & Lyrics by Jay Rapoport
Copyright Maxfun Music 2018 (ASCAP), all rights reserved
www.ruachrock.com

Vocals: Rachel Mylan & Jay Rapoport
Wurlitzer & Piano: Jay Rapoport
P Bass, Martin D35, Guild CV-1, Guild 12 string, Brian Moore I2p, Airline slide, Mandolin, Mellotron flutes: Zach Singer
Drums & Tambourine: Paul Pinon

Rachel Mylan recorded by Josh Goldberg at Kosher Style Records in Los Angeles, CA
Jay Rapoport recorded by Andy Shoemaker & Jason Schmidt at Rax Trax in Chicago, IL
Zach Singer recorded at Star Guitar Records in Austin, TX
Paul Pinon recorded in Austin, TX

Graphic Design by Rick Lupert
Executive Consultant Cantor Ross Wolman

Produced, arranged & mixed by Zach Singer at Star Guitar Records in Austin, TX

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Jay Rapoport Chicago, Illinois

Jay Rapoport, RJE takes Jewish values and texts and transforms them into “Ruach Rock”, a catchy piano-pounding style influenced by Ben Folds and Billy Joel. Jay has appeared on the Disney Holiday Singalong and received a Covenant Foundation grant to compose the theme song for the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland’s “La-bri’ut” curriculum. Jay is Director of URJ 6 Points Creative Arts Academy. ... more

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