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1985 Someday We'll All Be Free 0:30 holds out a hope that refuses to die. Hang on to the world as it spins around. Do not let the spin get you down. When everything is falling apart, the instruction is simple: hold on. Freedom is coming.
Not today maybe. But someday. The promise is not about the timing. It is about the certainty that the waiting will end. You just have to survive until then.
She does not need a hero or a savior. She needs him to stay. We do not need another hero is about surviving a world that asks too much. Real strength is coming home and being present for the people who need his presence there.
Oliver Stone set Platoon in the jungles of Vietnam and scored it with the music soldiers actually listened to. Smokey Robinson's 'The Tracks of My Tears' plays during a scene of forced levity before everything goes wrong -- boys playing cards, trying to pretend they're not terrified. The song is about hiding your pain in public.
The tracks of my tears. The jungle saw them. Image Credits
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