TIM BAKER - SURVIVORS (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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A music video for the song "Survivors" by Tim Baker
Filmed, compiled, edited, & directed by Tim at home during Covid-19 isolation in May 2020.

Actually three shots were sent by his friend Jordan Canning.
And the subtitling was done by Oliver Whitfield-Smith.

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I wasn’t specifically thinking about Black America or Canada or African Diaspora when i wrote the song Survivors. But it definitely entered into the song more than the idea of a possible future pandemic. The song is about overcoming hardship, trauma, depression, alienation, by looking back through time at the collective resilience of all of your ancestors that somehow managed to survive til reproductive age and pass the gift of life forward until it reached you here at the top of it all. It's a tragedy and an outrage that those words - hardship, trauma, depression, alienation, resilience, survival - continue to disproportionally apply to the lives of Non-White/European peoples on this continent. We are releasing this video today - this silly little video i shot myself during our collective isolation, thinking about this virus and drawing hope from the unfolding spring around me - in honour of Black Culture and Black Resilience, to which we all owe so much, especially in this industry. All of the proceeds from the streaming of the song and video will be donated to Black Youth Helpline (Canada) & the NAACP (US).

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SURVIVORS

you’ve got to be strong
even though you feel weak
you’ve got to carry on
though you want to give in

and when you are lost
don’t forget where you began
you’re a survivor
from a long line of the same

there’s no need to rush anything
don’t try to be a machine
because you might really succeed
and you are a human being

go outside
move how your body was made
like a survivor
from a long line of the same

pick up their gift
held up in helix and spit
and at the end of all this
you can’t just cave in and quit

you’ve got to be strong
even though you feel weak
you’ve got to carry on
though you want to give in, you can’t

cause you’re a survivor
see how you’re alive through it all
it’s what your every fibre is for
just to wake up and ride with the sun
like a survivor

Words & Music by Tim Baker
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