I just posted this on TheObamanation.com: theobamanation.com/wpblog/2008/08/12/isaac-hayes-and-posters-on-the-wall

A few years ago I'd just turned 21 and had this mulatto moment. I share it with you today on my birthday. I recorded this at Kulak's Woodshed in North Hollywood.



I'd like to encourage synergy with the Obama campaign, especially around the acceptance event in Denver on the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, so I thought I'd put this out. I have a vision that we can get Diana Ross to mash in "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with my "Stir It Up"

Then I'd like to sing Daydream which was written hoping for a day like this 10 years ago, when hope seemed more distant.

Right click to download Daydream

Right click to download Miracle.

Also I'm thinking that it would be nice to have some supporters cut videos to Daydream and Miracle using clips highlighting the issues that we hope to move in positive ways. The lyric for Daydream talks about a day when Martin's dream is fulfilled. With all that's going on in the media and campaigns, we know that is not going to be unequivocally August 28, 2008. But there is hope!

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daydream

carry me up to be received
we're drinking
coffee at 10am

newspaper deaths
thirty years, one day
a folk singer says i ain't scared

and tears fall as i daydream
of martin luther king fulfilled

(can you feel...?)

carry me up to receive
'cos despair as fate is nonsense to me
sun warms us through our windows
but my friend and i must go outside

with knowledge from these conversations
we must act at least in song

can you feel?
you're not alone!
can you feel?

carry me up to believe
that words of peace stir collective souls
that we'll be moved by nonviolent hands
that my passion's not nostalgic

and tears rise as i daydream
and i begin to smile

can you feel?
you're not alone!
can you feel
you're not alone!

can you feel...
can you feel...
you're not alone!
you're not alone!

(c) 1998/2002 Jason Luckett