Detroit - A Metaphysical City (Music Video)

This video is a "Mash-up/remix" of Journey's - Don't Stop Believing and Eminem's - Lose Yourself. We chose these 2 songs because of their relation with Detroit. Our "thesis" for the video was to prove that Detroit IS a Metaphysical City. We did this through 3 verses which discussed: Essence, Unity, and Subsisting/Self-Identity through Change.

We created this video in lieu of writing an 8-10 page Metaphysics Paper for our Metaphysics class at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.

We re-created the instrumental tracks for each song and then "mashed" them together, re-wrote about half of Journey's lyrics for the intro, chorus, and outro, wrote new metaphysical lyrics that fit Eminem's rhyme-scheme and flow, and then fit together a video to add depth and humor to the lyrics!

LYRICS:

Michael Weisbeck
Brian Meldrum
"Detroit: A Metaphysical City"


INTRODUCTION:
Just a small town girl
Living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere
Just a small town boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere

A city must have unity
Common good, community
Essence and identity
It goes on and on and on...

VERSE 1:
An ideal city,
The Greeks,
Sitting pretty
Aristotle wrote this little ditty, wise and witty
He's Grecian,
That the reason he lives in community
Common good
That's where we should be aiming
For the good end,
We should spend life good friends
Our natural trend
As an animal tends
Rational ens
Towards a political sense
With some defense
Of common good hence...

His theory shows promise but
Now what the problem is
How is St. Thomas's work
More on par than this
Ancient Greek blah treatise?
Know your catechesis
Show some respect please is
So what the Church teaches
Provide for all the needs as
Though you were like Jesus
Social concern reaches
Over what love preaches
Go to where true peace is
Growing, it increases
Progress of truth, justice
So what
A city is.

REFRAIN:
Essence and unity
Up and down the boulevard
Though the city changes through the year
Streetlight, people
Subsisting through all the changes
Hiding somewhere in the night...

VERSE 2:
Our sources cited
Say the city's unity
By common good so don't fight it
Write this down
Because a few say
Ens commune
Through common being per se
You know the esse
Well more or less, eh?
For unification
Look to relation not
Mom or your "dom" but a
Common location
Purpose or goal
And full on collaboration

Listen, son, gotta be
One to have unity
Some say activity
A functioning center controlling ability
But the truth is that here in our fair city
Oneness is said to be
Mostly extrinsically
So in reality
Our locality
Links a distinctive group's personality
Throughout Detroit city
You find a virtually
Unified mutually
True commonality.

REFRAIN:
Essence and unity
Up and down the boulevard
Though the city changes through the year
Streetlight, people
Subsisting through all the changes
Hiding somewhere in the night...

VERSE 3:
One thing that's strange is
Though Detroit changes
Many a good
Neighborhood rearranges
Mainly there's sameness
Namely the game is
Explaining the famous
Two kinds of changes
Is change accidental?
Or more like essential?
The former is normal for most things eventually
Undergo transition, transmission, addition
While being stays intact consequentially

No difference here in our city it's factual
You can see potency
Becoming actual
Substance remains and retains through the change
Thought the people and places and faces look strange
The city's got flow though the folks come and go
We have oh so much potential to grow
And you know our motto will help overcome clashes
We hope for better things, it will rise from the ashes.

OUTRO:
Don't stop believing
In metaphysical being
Streetlight, people (x4)

A SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Dr. Philip Blosser, Bob Bacik, Patrick Setto, Mario Amore, Jim Houbeck, John Vatter, Brian Lenz, and the SHMS Community!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Detroit
• Metaphysics
• Eminem
• Journey
• Don't Stop Believing
• Mash-up
• Sacred Heart Major Seminary
• Metaphysics Project
• Metaphysics Music Video

[cornutus11]

Creative, somewhat humorous and the vocals are not bad, but the rap could have been much stronger. The rap portions lack the necessary rhythm I'd prefer. Learn how to rap them bars, guys. Otherwise, it's cool.

[Wantmusic6]

@cornutus11 Thanks for the feedback, appreciate the advice on the rap.

[jjacksson330]

You all are going to make great priest!

[SgabrielYouth]

Well done ... We need more of this ... Keep it up... Let me know if you need some beats... I could help with that ... Look for me at Saint Gabriel... You may find me there... If not, leave a message ... Blessings and good luck in your Vocation ... Padre Jaime

[dearanna]

wow...I have to say that the lyrics are amazing. The rap portions could us a bit of work, but the concept and lyrics are amazing.

[jav1643]

yooz guys?

[jav1643]

yooz guys?

[mantellata]

pretty amazing job guys : )

[ROBLOXroad55]

Awesome.

[SEGY33]

Wow Brian, Mario, and company. Absolutely fantastic. Y'all are amazing!!!