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 captures 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% ring-spun cotton
• All Heather colors are 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Quarter-turned to avoid crease down the center
• Blank product sourced from Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Haiti or Guatemala

Disclaimer: Due to the fabric properties, the White color variant may appear off-white rather than bright white.

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