Video and Animation
We Are Fighting You Now is the new single by Ami Saraiya & The Outcome written in honor of activists who protest injustice and who work to realize a better future by living a better present. The song is a call for all of us to join in. it speaks to the surreal nature of our current cultural moment and is accompanied by an equally surreal animated video by Chicago multimedia artist Gretchen Hasse.
The video takes the viewer on a journey from the countryside, to the city, all the way to the bottom of the sea and the outer reaches of space, always pursued by and always fighting a faceless, insatiable beast. We are fighting those who would consume us, and the only answer is to keep loving, and keep fighting
Official Release Date: 5/14/2020
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Lyrics:
We are fighting you now
We are fighting you so we can breathe
You stand on our chest
You rise, we fall, and we sink deep deep deep
You and your piggyback crowd
That likes to get fat off our meat
It didn’t have to go this way at all
But you forced us into your groove of greed and doubt
What else can we do and not lash out
Like a spring of hope that's pushed down too long
We’ll break free
You are fighting us now
You are fighting evolve from this beast
Just try to dream bigger
The world can be more than you see
It didn’t have to go this way at all
If together we learned to bounce so high off each other
We’d reach so high 'til every step was divine
Like a spring of hope that's pushed down too long
We’ll break free
We are light as a feather
© 2020 Ami Saraiya
Video Written & Animated by: Gretchen Hasse
Music Recorded & Produced by: Mark Messing
Music Mixed by: Neil Strauch
Ami Saraiya: Vocals/Accordion
Courtney Glascoe: Vocals
Gary Kalar: Guitar
Marc Piane: Bass
Shirley Rogiers: Vocals/Glockenspiel
Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo: Drums/Percussion
Download/Purchase this track at: http://amisaraiyaandtheoutcome.bandca.... All proceeds go to non-profit organization, nationalbailout.org. The National Bail Out collective is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support black folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.