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Bob Marley – “Redemption Song”

  Freeing the Mind, For Real Some songs are just nice background noise. And then some songs stop you in your tracks, songs that feel like they’re speaking directly to something buried deep inside you. For me, Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” is one of those. It doesn’t feel like a song so much as a message, an ancient reminder disguised as music. That line, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds” , has been echoing across generations for a reason. It’s simple, but it cuts straight through all the noise. Marley wasn’t just singing about politics, or history, or even one specific kind of struggle. He was naming the quiet prison most of us live in without realizing it. And that prison isn’t made of walls or chains, it’s all in the mind. Before the Song: That Weird Pull Toward What We Need Have you noticed how we don’t pick songs randomly? Like, even before we hit play, something in us knows what we need to hear. We scroll past hundreds of tracks...