- celestialskylightb
Unite to Divide - Lyrics & Backstory
Updated: Oct 2, 2020
Verse 1
Inception
Plant the seed
Deception
Only to reap
We see you
Crawling in the cracks
You say you have our backs
While you drive a wedge between us
We see you
Creating a divide
You take them for a ride
But we see right through it
Chorus
Stand united
To divide us
Stand united
To divide us
We see you
We see you
We see you
We see you
Verse 2
Religion
Preach it loud
Deflection
Create a cloud
Chorus
Stand united
To divide us
Stand united
To divide us
Bridge (Instrumental)
Chorus
Stand united
To divide us
Stand united
To divide us
Unite to Divide - Backstory
This song oddly, started in the kitchen and not on the guitar. While cooking, I had this bass line and guitar riff stuck in my head and couldn't shake off. I ended up recording it and it became the start of a new song. The song is political and a reflection of what was unfolding in the country around me with politics, media, business all uniting to divide people in a bid to consolidate their control and further their agenda. Shortly before the pandemic, a massive number of citizens, especially the youth, took to the streets in protest in unity, take a stand and say 'we will not be divided'. This strategy of divide & conquer has been gaining momentum the world over by political personalities the world over. Resources are being mobilised to divide people either on the basis of religion, caste, race, ethnicity, languages,..absolutely anything that can turn one group of people against another (usually a minority) and use the divide to unite the majority. Nearly every part of the world has a similar story unfolding and as long as we fall prey to these tactics, continue to see differences instead of finding similarities, there is little hope of peace, progress & unity.
