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This Train Is Bound for Glory  - Studio Sessions (Liam)
This Train Is Bound for Glory is one of the most powerful spirituals in the public domain — a rolling anthem of faith, justice, and the journey toward salvation.
Rooted in the oral tradition of Black spirituals, this song emerged in the early 20th century, carried by church voices, railroad workers, and freedom singers. With a no-nonsense moral clarity, it lays out who gets to ride the train — not kings or liars, but the humble and righteous.
We’ve restructured this timeless classic with acoustic gospel soul and community harmonies — built for clapping hands, stomping feet, and raw baritone voices. No crowns needed. Just a steady heart and a soul ready to ride.
🎙️ This version uses only public domain lyrics — free to perform, record, and remix. Let the people sing.
Public Domain Lyrics:
This train is bound for gloryThis trainThis train is bound for gloryThis trainThis train is bound for gloryDon't ride nothin’ but the righteous and the holyThis train is bound for gloryThis train
This train don't carry no gamblersThis trainThis train don't carry no gamblersThis trainThis train don't carry no gamblersLiars thieves or midnight ramblersThis train is bound for gloryThis train
This train don’t carry no liarsThis trainThis train don’t carry no liarsThis trainThis train don’t carry no liarsBackbiters or two-faced buyersThis train is bound for gloryThis train
This train is built for the humbleThis trainThis train is built for the humbleThis trainThis train is built for the humbleNot the proud who live in fumbleThis train is bound for gloryThis train
You don’t need a crownOr a seat in high placesJust a heart that’s steadyAnd feet that know the rhythm of grace
This train is bound for gloryThis trainThis train is bound for gloryThis trainThis train is bound for gloryRide it clean ride it surelyThis train is bound for gloryThis train
This train is bound for gloryThis train
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"If the world is condemned to mediocrity, if heroes are no more than statues and mythical figures and if adventure is for madmen then let us condemn ourselves to glory, let us become myth and let us be madmen, for the herd is already too numerous." — Nicolás Gómez Dávila
About the Author
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994) was a Colombian philosopher and aphorist known as "Don Colacho" to his admirers. Unlike many public intellectuals, Gómez Dávila was famously reclusive, preferring to work from his personal library of over 30,000 volumes rather than in academic institutions. His masterwork, "Escolios a un Texto Implícito" (Scholia to an Implicit Text), contains thousands of aphorisms that offer biting critiques of modernity, democracy, and progressive thinking.
Gómez Dávila's philosophy embraces aristocratic values and rejects what he saw as the spiritual emptiness of contemporary society. Though often labeled a conservative, his thinking defies simple categorization, combining elements of traditionalism with a radical willingness to stand against prevailing currents of thought.
This particular quote exemplifies his counter-cultural stance, rejecting mediocrity and conformity while celebrating those willing to be viewed as "madmen" by conventional society. The quote's celebration of glory, myth, and adventure over safety and conformity resonates powerfully with creative rebels and intellectual outsiders.
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Song Inspired by Come Down Moses and the Frog Protests (No More Pharaohs, No More Kings, Let My People Go)
 
(Exodus 8:2–6, NIV translation):
“If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.

Letter from a Region in My Mind | Spoken Word (Nik Bear Brown)
Musinique resident poet and song writer Nik Bear Brown made a spoken word interpretation of James Baldwin's  “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” The New Yorker (Nov. 17, 1962)
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked peopleIt is not necessary that people be wickedBut only that they be spineless
They turn their heads and blink too slowThey hear the screams but never goThey let the lie repeat and swellAnd silence does the work of hell
In the region of my mind where rage meets graceI see a boy with a fire-creased faceHe asked, “Must I hate to survive this land?”And no one reached to take his hand
We tell them kneel, then call them lowWe chain the truth and call it snowWe ask them peace, then feed them fearAnd wonder why the blood runs near
They handed me a cross and a flagSaid both would save me if I sangBut both were used to build the wallAnd neither caught me when I’d fall
Hold your soul, don’t sell it cheapEven if you cry, don’t let them weepEven if your voice shakes lowSay the thing they fear you know
I met God in a jailhouse prayerAnd doubt in a marble preacher’s glareAnd I found myself where I was lost—Where Blackness bore both crown and cross
No chains can hold the truth for longAnd silence never righted wrongA nation breaks from fear, not fightA spine must rise to birth the lightAmen
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