There’s a new Eric Church video going viral, and we aren’t exactly sure what it is. A poem? Or a song? Or something that falls somewhere in between?
Because on paper, it looks like a song. But Church isn’t singing the words. He’s merely speaking them. Like a poet or a preacher or just someone with a lot of deep thoughts and a platform to share them.
He’s title the work, “Through My Ray-Bans,” and it goes like this:
Where there once were roars
Now there are just echos
The handshakes and the hugs of yore are now too dangerous
But I don’t believe in fear, I don’t believe in panic
I don’t believe in all this complexity
This damn virus has any idea what it’s up against:
The American resolve: steeled by the world, steadied by faith, calmed by song,
healed by prayer
Oh, I believe, damn right, I believe
I believe these halls will roar again
These stadiums will be deafening and the answer to this enemy
The silence of now will cower at the noise of soon
When the question of who will answer this call is asked
Thousands will raise their fists and say, “I will, we will.”
And we damn sure will
Where fear preys, we will feed
Where pestilence stalks, we will hunt
I feel for our enemy, for it has no chance, it has no prayer
And I believe, I believe our best is yet to come.
We shall rage
We shall roar
I cannot wait to see you again through my Ray Bans.”