For our first music-video for IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY, TELL THEM, animator Bernardo Tirelli imagined new life, flowering in the decay of capitalism, blooming from the brutalism of urban, industrial architecture. Though Bernardo visualized the particular song "The Village," it's an image that capture the entires album, as songwriter Jesse James DeConto clings to hope for his kids' future in America and on planet Earth. The lyrics on this shirt come from the record's third track, "All the Protest Songs Are About You":
mothers' tears water souls dreamers' blood in the soil is the seed that will reconceive the earth
Jesse was thinking about those who suffered and died during the Civil Rights movement to move our country forward, but now it also represents new martyrs like Alex Pretti and Renee Good, who died resisting ICE in Minnesota. Will we build a new kind of society after these tragedies?
• 100% combed and ringspun cotton • Tri-blends are 50% polyester/25% combed/25% ringspun cotton/rayon • Fabric weight: 4.2 oz/yd² (142.40 g/m²), triblends: 3.8 oz/yd² (90.07 g/m²) • 30 singles thread weight • Side-seamed • Blank product sourced from Nicaragua, Honduras, or the US