"We Are The Future Song Project" started in 2001 as part of a Music Wales community project. The original song was written by UK songwriter Paul Weston after he listened to world issues raised by the young people at the community centre. The song was then recorded in English by six young ladies from different ethnic backgrounds who called their music group "Shades". They had never appeared in public before and this was their first time in the recording studio. Later the song was translated and recorded in Spanish, KiSwahili, Yaruba and Arabic - and so, with your help and input, it goes on!
"We Are The Future" song project is non political and is aimed to include all people from all races, cultures and religions who share the goal of a peaceful world working towards a balanced social and economic equality.
The premise is for "our children’s children’s children" to make the world a better place by rejecting war and violence and working together to support and help each other. The simple fact is that, if my generation is the "future"… then the world "hasn’t got a future!" The "We Are The Future" song is being recorded by people all over the world and my prayers are that more people will back us and record the song as a way of showing there commitment to world peace and as a way of saying "we reject violence and terrorism" from wherever and whoever uses it to further their own objectives.
The WATF team offers YOU, teachers, students, youth groups, school children and any other young people wishing to live in a world of peace to get the WATF song translated into your countries language and to then record a version. The original WATF song music track and lyrics can be downloaded from this site (click on 'the song' navigation button at the top of this page) and/or we would also welcome you to record your own version of the song so long as it is based around the original lyrics of the WATF song.
Any new versions of the song recorded by YOU will be featured on this web site and also on the original composers web site at www.paulwestonmusic.com.
PLEASE JOIN US!!
We need a major backer to support WATF song project and our eventual aim is to set up a charity foundation to raise money for children’s charities around the world.
Paul Weston
Quotations :
"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them." - Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. President, 1953-1961
"This is a universal Law of Nature — action and reaction — 'As you sow, so shall you reap.' It is a matter of truthfully facing the facts....war, anywhere, by anyone, will make the reality of war perpetual, as it has been throughout the ages. Wisdom in this scientific age demands eliminating the cause of all wars." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Oib zein vort volt gedint als brik, volt men saichel hoben aribergain." (If the world will ever be redeemed, it will be only through the wisdom of children.) |
