Wooh Kathryn you have your singing face on for that one and it is no surprise to me that you have. It is a brilliant song which I hope to do in Jaks at Butlins next year. Originally I was going to see you in Chesterfield but my oldest girl just became engaged and the nearest gig to Huddersfield would be Barnsley
A beautiful version of Tom Wait's haunting song. I would only add this as a correction to Kathryn Roberts' explanation:: Georgia Lee Moses, a Black child, did not freeze to death. She was murdered near Petaluma, California in 1997. Unlike many highly-covered child abduction/ murders, the case of Georgia Lee attracted relatively little attention, and many believe that Waits was condemning inherent racism when he asked, "Why wasn't God watching?"
@@ThePunk7777Well true enough, but my angle wasn't anything to do with this particular case but the fact that a god-less world constantly blames a God - as e.g. Richard Dawkins does - it claims not to believe in! But that God actually incarnated & experienced the greatest act of love & suffering ever, which incredible act wiped clean the human slate and will 'soon enough' usher in the perfect world we have all been inculcated with at birth, along with Love & Morals etc - something the godless, blind, accidental Darwinian chemical world has no viable explanation for........And something my own old Hippie self has always craved......but not just ungrounded Love, Love Love, for we were missing a big bit - Justice - there is no Love without Justice. ....And such as our original subject here, Georgia Lee will, with everyone else, get perfect justice when the Lord returns, as the hundreds of Bible prophecies that so accurately describe these days, and only theses days, shows..... Ultimately, no one gets away with anything... Justice is the next thing all the dead, and living at the time, will get! For there is only one source of our god-given morals & love etc....God, and yes, I have looked at all the 'alternatives' and there is only one version that expands the more you look - all the Hippie/Eastern Comparitive Religions/philosophies etc all quickly fall apart..... Not that you wanted to hear any of that?!
@@happysappy21 I think you are totally misinterpreting the lyrics. Tom is not making out Georgia to be the primary cause; what he is doing is questioning why she was put in the situation she was, and why she was "allowed" to suffer the way she did. She was born into a dysfunctional family - which wasn't her fault - and she had trouble dealing with the situation at home. What Tom is saying is that NOBODY was looking out for her. Her family - and society as a whole - failed her, and not even God was able to save her from her terrible fate. The connection between God and racism (as you claim) is not that simple; it refers to TWO thoughts. Firstly there is the feeling that God (as I stated earlier) failed her, but that has nothing to do with Georgia Lee's race or color. However, the fact that society did not mourn her like they did Polly Klaas, certainly DOES seem to indicate that. Again, THAT is not strictly a reference to race, more the community and upbringing she had. In other words, God doesn't differentiate between between black and white, rich and poor, and fame and anonymity. Sadly, society does...
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Wooh Kathryn you have your singing face on for that one and it is no surprise to me that you have. It is a brilliant song which I hope to do in Jaks at Butlins next year.
Originally I was going to see you in Chesterfield but my oldest girl just became engaged and the nearest gig to Huddersfield would be Barnsley
A beautiful version of Tom Wait's haunting song. I would only add this as a correction to Kathryn Roberts' explanation:: Georgia Lee Moses, a Black child, did not freeze to death. She was murdered near Petaluma, California in 1997. Unlike many highly-covered child abduction/ murders, the case of Georgia Lee attracted relatively little attention, and many believe that Waits was condemning inherent racism when he asked, "Why wasn't God watching?"
If you chuck God out.....well!
@@philipsnow6211 Well nothing, the suffering can not be justified by any being.
@@ThePunk7777Well true enough, but my angle wasn't anything to do with this particular case but the fact that a god-less world constantly blames a God - as e.g. Richard Dawkins does - it claims not to believe in! But that God actually incarnated & experienced the greatest act of love & suffering ever, which incredible act wiped clean the human slate and will 'soon enough' usher in the perfect world we have all been inculcated with at birth, along with Love & Morals etc - something the godless, blind, accidental Darwinian chemical world has no viable explanation for........And something my own old Hippie self has always craved......but not just ungrounded Love, Love Love, for we were missing a big bit - Justice - there is no Love without Justice. ....And such as our original subject here, Georgia Lee will, with everyone else, get perfect justice when the Lord returns, as the hundreds of Bible prophecies that so accurately describe these days, and only theses days, shows..... Ultimately, no one gets away with anything... Justice is the next thing all the dead, and living at the time, will get! For there is only one source of our god-given morals & love etc....God, and yes, I have looked at all the 'alternatives' and there is only one version that expands the more you look - all the Hippie/Eastern Comparitive Religions/philosophies etc all quickly fall apart..... Not that you wanted to hear any of that?!
@@happysappy21 Georgia Lee Moses had a hard life but she was not a bad girl. www.georgialeemoses.com The lyrics of the song is somewhat misleading.
@@happysappy21 I think you are totally misinterpreting the lyrics. Tom is not making out Georgia to be the primary cause; what he is doing is questioning why she was put in the situation she was, and why she was "allowed" to suffer the way she did. She was born into a dysfunctional family - which wasn't her fault - and she had trouble dealing with the situation at home. What Tom is saying is that NOBODY was looking out for her. Her family - and society as a whole - failed her, and not even God was able to save her from her terrible fate.
The connection between God and racism (as you claim) is not that simple; it refers to TWO thoughts. Firstly there is the feeling that God (as I stated earlier) failed her, but that has nothing to do with Georgia Lee's race or color. However, the fact that society did not mourn her like they did Polly Klaas, certainly DOES seem to indicate that. Again, THAT is not strictly a reference to race, more the community and upbringing she had. In other words, God doesn't differentiate between between black and white, rich and poor, and fame and anonymity. Sadly, society does...
Fucked up the beauty part of this song. Waits fans know what part.