{"id":75120,"date":"2016-08-15T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=75120"},"modified":"2016-06-13T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:44:40","slug":"people-have-the-power-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/08\/people-have-the-power-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"People Have the Power (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<b>People Have the Power<\/b>&#8221; is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred &#8220;Sonic&#8221; Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith 1988 album <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dream_of_Life\" title=\"Dream of Life\" >Dream of Life<\/a><\/i>. The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pPR-HyGj2d0<br \/>\n<strong>LYRICS:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was dreaming in my dreaming<br \/>\nof an aspect bright and fair<br \/>\nand my sleeping it was broken<br \/>\nbut my dream it lingered near<br \/>\nin the form of shining valleys<br \/>\nwhere the pure air recognized<br \/>\nand my senses newly opened<br \/>\nI awakened to the cry<br \/>\nthat the people \/ have the power<br \/>\nto redeem \/ the work of fools<br \/>\nupon the meek \/ the graces shower<br \/>\nit&#8217;s decreed \/ the people rule<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The people have the power<br \/>\nThe people have the power<br \/>\nThe people have the power<br \/>\nThe people have the power<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vengeful aspects became suspect<br \/>\nand bending low as if to hear<br \/>\nand the armies ceased advancing<br \/>\nbecause the people had their ear<br \/>\nand the shepherds and the soldiers<br \/>\nlay beneath the stars<br \/>\nexchanging visions<br \/>\nand laying arms<br \/>\nto waste \/ in the dust<br \/>\nin the form of \/ shining valleys<br \/>\nwhere the pure air \/ recognized<br \/>\nand my senses \/ newly opened<br \/>\nI awakened \/ to the cry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where there were deserts<br \/>\nI saw fountains<br \/>\nlike cream the waters rise<br \/>\nand we strolled there together<br \/>\nwith none to laugh or criticize<br \/>\nand the leopard<br \/>\nand the lamb<br \/>\nlay together truly bound<br \/>\nI was hoping in my hoping<br \/>\nto recall what I had found<br \/>\nI was dreaming in my dreaming<br \/>\ngod knows \/ a purer view<br \/>\nas I surrender to my sleeping<br \/>\nI commit my dream to you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Refrain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The power to dream \/ to rule<br \/>\nto wrestle the world from fools<br \/>\nit&#8217;s decreed the people rule<br \/>\nit&#8217;s decreed the people rule<br \/>\nLISTEN<br \/>\nI believe everything we dream<br \/>\ncan come to pass through our union<br \/>\nwe can turn the world around<br \/>\nwe can turn the earth&#8217;s revolution<br \/>\nwe have the power<br \/>\nPeople have the power &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People Have the Power&#8221; is a rock song written by Patti Smith and Fred &#8220;Sonic&#8221; Smith, and released as a lead single from Patti Smith 1988 album Dream of Life. The music video is filmed mostly in black-and-white and features Patti Smith singing, writing and walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}