Wall Street Wrecks Everything: The Empress

[gwally31]

I just found your account. Man you can really put a feeling into song. It hit me hard. The feelings I am having for the country I love and watching it lose it's soul. Keep it flowing brother!

[3slimdog]

Another great video. loved it.

[titlex1]

speak

[sngrmnsthsm]

This is so powerful

Joey! Thank You! You ROCK!!

[joeyess]

thank you, dear.

[celtiac]

What she said! 

[AristoteDeLaSar]

Very

Very

Vvvvveeeeerrrrryyyyyy GOOD

DeLaSar

[joeyess]

thanks, Aristo. Coming from you, that means a lot.

[Kevindad123]

Good vid! Thought you might turn around?

Kevin

[GottaLaff]

Come on, Joey, couldn't you at least get a little heartfelt?

Kidding, I'm KIDDING. This was great! Right between the eyes. Excellent.

Lerve you!

[kevinmc1]

Brilliant joeyess, brilliant, thank you.

Peace!

[onehotrunnerchick]

very thought-provoking video and song. i am very saddened at what our nation has become, all the way around. i long to rewind to the days when *i* was growing up. in the days of the innocence. the days of people having each others' backs. never playing the race card. not having to pay for people who don't even care to become citizens of the nation. i do not like the current state of this nation or what we've become. but here am i, like everyone else. wondering wth to do about it...

[joeyess]

Shame them. Shame them all.

[jmcr71795]

Excellent bro'. When I hear about the "Tea Baggers" and the insurance company dupes at the town hall meetings down there, the ignorance makes me depressed. So it pleases me to be reminded that there are other Americans, concerned about their country reality and not living in a Limbaugh /Beck neo-fascist paranoid corporate fantasy.

[joeyess]

thanks.

[andymcgaha]

"A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'"

[joeyess]

Too bad we don't live up to that.

[andymcgaha]

The bigger sadness is we never have, even when it was engraved. First we hated the Irish. Then the Eastern Europeans. Now the Mexicans. We've never lived up to the image of Emma Lazarus' New Colossus.

I understand the message, but I resent the symbolism. The Statue of Liberty isn't the fault of or cause of our problems as a nation. It's a symbol of an ideal that the American people fail.

We bow to our mindless selfishness and hate our leaders and change our past as excuses. We're the problem.

[joeyess]

that's my point.

[andymcgaha]

Fair enough.

Just feels grimy, renaming the Lady. I reckon it makes sense though; folks should feel a little grimy when they pull their heads out of the clouds.

Point of mine is, whenever I help an immigrant in any small way I quote that poem to them and tell them where it's inscribed and it gives them a good feeling, maybe a hopeful feeling. I think the Lady is a symbol for those folks, something to inspire them. I don't want her to be a symbol for the worst of us, I want her to be the best.

[joeyess]

So do I. And that poem should inspire. But we're a country that has lost it's soul. A soul that is, unfortunately, inscribed on monuments nationwide. Words are empty and meaningless when actions overwhelm them. I desperately want my nation to live up to it's ideals. When she doesn't, I'm gravely disappointed. That disappointment has been the refrain for the entirety of my life. Seriously. When I was 3 JFK , by age 9 Vietnam, at 20 Nicaragua, at 30, Iran/Contra, at 40 GWB and so it goes........

[blair227]

I was 13 when JFK was murdered,at age 19 I was in Vietnam,killing people that had never done anything to me.I didn't ask to be there,I was drafted.We fought to stay alive and come home.Of my 60 man platoon in basic training,there is only 17 of us alive today.Of the 58000,killed,30,ooo were killed after the TET offensive 1968.Vietnam was a civil war we had no business involving ourselves in.All those young men dead and for nothing.

[KyanPace]

blair, i agree and i am sorry you lost so many in your platoon. war solves nothing..

[KyanPace]

great video joey!

[joeyess]

thanks, Kyan.

[KyanPace]

no prob, you really are so talented:)

[WhrsTheMoneyLabowski]

Awesome video Joey. 5*  Hannity is a scary sob.

[payasodelmar]

thanks for giving me some inspiration on the consumption-reduction front! your stuff is always both inspirational and troubling at the same time....one of the earmarks of great art? forwarding to my office mates!

[joeyess]

I've had some internal regret over the content of this piece. I even contemplated taking it down. But the facts remain. We as a nation can be better and our constant refrain of our exceptionalism demands that we strive for that. Art is painful sometimes.

Thanks for your comment.

[DreamerLaboratory]

PEACE. 5*

[Vyn2007]

a true and cool song 5*

[blair227]

Great job my friend.Always love your vids.

[jantheempress]

Peace and Love is definately the better deal ♥

[Hippydude777]

pretty good

[cacoune]

WOW! So very, very true! Gives me the chill.

Great work! Thanks.

[joeyess]

You're welcome.