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A Little Faith
Words and Music by Victor Manning, Arranged by BlissNinnies
Copyright 2000 RawToast Music All Rights Reserved

This song emerged from the demise of our beloved South Bay Action Center, a semi-autonomous Activist Collective that lived and died in the early 1990's. After a year of Anarchic Experimentation of various forms, all geared toward changing people's minds about critical issues of the day (Environment, Hemp- Legalization, Persian Gulf War, Human Rights) the SBAC collapsed under its own Heavy Vibe as member organizations bickered as much about internal policy as they did about their own pet peeves. BlissNinnies, although supportive of the causes espoused by these organizations (Green Party, La Raza, Earth First, LifeWeb, and several others), felt that our role was to bring the joy and the music to the SBAC events. We left the Anger and the Outrage to the guest speakers and their sponsors, and generally finished up the evening with a crazsy mixture of Grateful Dead, Little Feat, and other covers of the genre. In November of 1991, after all of the other groups had left the SBAC, the building was reclaimed by its original owner, and the dream was over. This song was written in its wake.

I can't believe what I watched the other day.
I watched a dream turn into a memory
I always figured it would sometime fade away.
I just never realized what it meant to me.
Remember not so long ago, we stood together
Surrounded by a common enemy.
We shared that moment in the face of stormy weather
when once we knew ourselves as family

Sweat and blood alone won't realize a vision.
You gotta have just a little faith.
And talk alone is not enough to make decisions.
You've got to live up to what you say.
Its not a question of consensus, or agreement,
Whether or not we make mistakes.
Sometimes Love can lead you to change what you believe in
Without a choice for you to make.
Its not a choice you can make.

Just takes a moment to get my thoughts together
Though there's so much left to say
But everything is changing, and sometimes its for the better,
Even when it doesn't go your way
Down the road, if we ever meet each other,
I hope we still might share the memories
Maybe then we'll see ourselves as more like one another
And maybe we won't take it all so seriously.