Amy Speace - Weight of the World

Amy Speace's homage to service members and their families, featuring real soldiers from New York National Guard units. www.amyspeace.com

© 2007 by Amy Speace, Speace Monster Music (BMI) / Jud Caswell, Alderdown Songs (ASCAP)/Jon Vezner, Mini Apples Music (BMI)


CAST
Band:
Amy Speace - Vocals Guitar
James Mastro - Guitar
Rich Feridun - Guitar
Jagoda - Drums

Soliders:
crew dawgs C5 Galaxy
Msgt Johnny Sheehy - Flying Crew Chief -NY Air Guard
Jamison John Sheehy -JJ (little boy)
Msgt Jeff Sheehy
Ssgt Jason Warf
Msgt Thomas M.Curran
Tsgt Alexander Quintero
Tsgt Henry Rodriguez
Sgt Josue' Colo'n
Sgt Gregory Urso
Ssgt Jonathan Ramos

Nichole M. Bower - Staff Sergeant - SSG / US Army 417th Engineer Battalion

CREW
Director - Tom Moore
DP / Cinematographer - Rob Featherstone
Stylist - Sophia Featherstone
Settlement Camp - City of Beacon - Mark Price
Gaffer - Chris Fisher
AC - James Parsons
PA / Gaffer - Paul Carmine
PA / Grip - Shane Hobel
PA - Jim Bopp
PA - Brian Murnane
PA - Brian Westpoint
PA - Jason Price

Category:

Music

Tags:

• alternative
• country
• folk
• indie
• rock
• Amy
• Speace

[newmorning59]

RADThird1, Thanks Brother, because you got it dead on. And yes this is an anti-war song and could be nothing else. But it still pays praise to all those that have served with honor and selflessness. And we own them so much for all they have given over the years to keep this country free and great. What happened to our guys that got shot down this past week is a clear example of that type of sacrifice.

[RADThird1]

If this wonderful song ain't an anti-war song I'll eat my hat. It's a condemnation of all war. The young people die the old people cry. That's war. Always was, always will be. Those who see this as a pander to country and patriotism need to listen again...hard.

[pediva1]

Great song - heard her last night in Dallas opening for Guy Clark - she is a very gifted singer/writer...I see why Judy Collins likes her work.

[Eisenburg46]

jackhammer111, I know what the cost in human life has been in Iraq / Afghanistan and I do appreciate all those sacrificed leading up to the death of Osama bin Ladin. Also I know what it’s like to learn that a loved one died while fighting for our country in Vietnam. Finally, I respect your right to stand by your comments, however you should talk to your Minister to help you get past the rage because it is hurtful to imagine your anger. Good luck Brother and take care.

[lnglv70sprog]

"Proud to be an American" is pandering. This is a personal message meant only to make you think about sacrafice and responsibility. If that's a bad thing, then I quit

[storminyt]

i first heard this song sung by Judy Collins. i have looked for it ever since. beautiful song.

[qbertq1]

Stand by your comments all you want. According to you, all works of fiction are cons. Because Picasso wasn't at Guernica, his painting was obviously "shameless pandering." Your argument is as convincing as your apostrophe useage.

[jackhammer111]

This crap is not deserving of mention with Hemingway or Whitman or Mailer or Vonnegut. If I thought for a minute it rose to art I wouldn't be offended.

I stand by my comments.

Save your sorry for over 4000 American dead and their families, and the Afgani's and Iraqi's who's dead nobody nobody puts at less than 120,000.

This song, and its video, is a flag waiving glorification of war masquerading as anti-war. It's manipulative. It want's to tell you how to feel without making you think.

[Eisenburg46]

@jackhammer111 I think it is sad you would automatically think that the creation of this song was strictly profit driven. I suggest that you consider all the songs, poems and other literature that were written in an effort to pay praise to those that sacrificed their lives so the rest of us could live free lives in the USA. So in a word if what you are saying is true, the likes of Walt Whitman, Earnest Hemingway and so many others were just in it for the money? I feel sorry for you.

[jackhammer111]

unless she had a real brother who died in the middle east, this is shameless pandering. a con perpetrated by a despicable piece of crap to make money off of our sympathy for those 4000 plus that have died in the longest war in American history that has no end in sight. flag waving for money.