I'm History

from Repeat the Days by Atlas Fret

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As teachers we repeatedly tell our students to remember that everyone is part of history in the making. It is so easy for student (and adults) to cruise through life unaware of how the modern era came into being. The message of this song is that we are all part of the great flow of history. In order to learn from the past we must humanize it, and realize that people throughout repeatedly struggle with the same basic emotions framed in only slightly shifting historical contexts.

lyrics

This is me and some day I’ll be history
No longer living flesh, committed to the page
I walk down city streets covered in antiquity
Looking at the buildings, guessing at their age

If I could I’d steal a moment
Find a place to hide it away
And when I could I’d spread it all out
Jump in, repeat the days

Some homes are castles, others are just servant’s shacks
Some lead a privileged life carried on the backs
Of common people dying in obscurity
They set the stage for you and me

Please speak kindly around their faded memories
Heroes and villains filling up a page
Dusty volumes, the stories washing over me
In my time I’ll join them some day