I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.