Our thinking about creativity is that we add on to the new and that there is not much of a “creative spark” and that you can look at the design and just change it. Is it really this simple? I don’t really agree with this and scholarly studies on creativity and looking at creativity like it was a part of a sample series in blood tests for Malaria and looking for the deviations. I think that things change and “mutate” and that sometimes that past idea is the same in a way, in another world and another time.

This song is important to me for its content and feel and about police using excessive force in American. Now the words are simple but singing them is not the same. Now you watch the video and here are the lyrics. This was written by Bruce Springsteen.

AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS)

Album version

(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)

41 shots, and we’ll take that ride
‘Cross the bloody river to the other side
41 shots, cut through the night
You’re kneeling over his body in the vestibule
Praying for his life

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin

(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)

41 shots, Lena gets her son ready for school
She says, “On these streets, Charles
You’ve got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you, promise me you’ll always be polite
And that you’ll never ever run away
Promise Mama you’ll keep your hands in sight”

Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it a wallet (is it a wallet), this is your life (this is your life)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin

(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)

Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it in your heart (is it in your heart), is it in your eyes (is it in your eyes)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)
It ain’t no secret (it ain’t no secret)

41 shots, and we’ll take that ride
‘Cross this bloody river to the other side
41 shots, I got my boots caked with this mud
We’re baptized in these waters (baptized in these waters)
And in each other’s blood (and in each other’s blood)

41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots

41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)

*****And watch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band sing this out:

Now some say that Bruce connected things from his own experience, from readings, from other songs, from life, but he took a real life experience of an man shot for going for his wallet. Now I will take a real life experience of excessive force and do as the article mentions, as Steve Jobs says, “Creativity is just connecting things.” And this is also from the same article: “A creative person then works with those knobs to figure out possible variations on the original concept, and to incorporate anything that will produce something novel, effective and/or aesthetically pleasing. In other words, creativity involves “twisting the knobs” on an existing idea or artifact, to create new variations on an existing theme.” It is not as easy as this, in my own opinion.

My new words make a creative song?

TrayvonMartinHooded

Trayvon Martin from his Google picture

Black American Skin (Buying Skittles) for Trayvon Martin

(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)

I want something sweet, and I’ll walk a little way
Call my Boo, after a delay
Something sweet, a man harrasses me
Just because of my hoodie and the way I be
Pray for my race don’t you see?

Is this a little errand, is it a safe place?
Will I rob you blind, you can’t see my face?
We All Know the truth, especially us who are dark
We All Know the truth, especially us who are dark
No new news
You can get killed just for living in your African-American skin

(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)

Getting skittles, I’m just a teen
My mom says, “On these streets, Trayvon
You’ve got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you, promise me you’ll always be polite
And that you’ll never ever run away
Promise Mama you’ll keep your hands in sight”

(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)

Get my skittles, and I will call my sweet Lil Boo
Talk about our love and sweet talk too
With some skittles, I got my snacks with me
Won’t this Zimmerman let me go free?
Or will I have to show my anger to make him see?

(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)
(Buying something sweet)

skittles (you can get killed just for living in your African-American)
skittles (you can get killed just for living in your African-American)

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How many sweets? And my re-write for Trayvon Martin

AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS)

Album version