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Tie Fighter: Bastards of Young.
This is based on a pre-existing video on YouTube by OTAKing Animation, which you can view at this link here:
https://youtu.be/PN_CP4SuoTU?si=Y1VDFrXeqGcd8ZJU
I had nothing to do with the anime styled film’s creation and so I’m only using a portion of the video and giving you all the link to see the untouched video and making sure that the animator and company that produced it and released it on YouTube gets the full credit. It’s a fantastic video and I highly recommend you all watch it.
The other portion of this video was taken by a song by the band The Replacements, entitled Bastards of Young. I love this song since back when I was in high school and I wanted to put it in this video as a soundtrack mainly because I felt it added to the narrative of two sides being forced to annihilate each other by opposing leaders that remain largely unseen. It’s not about who is right and who is wrong with regard to The Empire versus The Rebellion in Star Wars so much as it is about the cost of life for a generation forced to fight in a war neither side of youth started hence they are bastardized by the larger system and mostly unsung as a result. No put intended.
Obviously I had nothing to do with the writing of this song, but I have posted the lyrics in its entirety below so that you all can read it. Outside of that the only real thing that makes this video transformative is my idea related to uniting these two and then actually doing it, but I retained the fact that I do not have any rights whatsoever from either, the band, The Replacements and their songwriters and what not and the filmmakers behind Tie Fighter. This is just something that I did back in 2023 that I wanted to share and having it on Patreon as a free video makes it possible since I would obviously be flagged on YouTube for doing something like this. Hence why it is free and I appreciate your understanding and hope you enjoy it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Rivera
Bastards of Young
Song by The Replacements ‧ 1985
Ah
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons
Clean your baby womb, trash that baby boom
Elvis in the ground, no way he'll be here tonight
Income tax deduction, one hell of a function
It beats pickin' cotton or waitin' to be forgotten
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
Now the daughters and the sons
Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no war to name us
The ones love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
Wait on the sons of no one, bastards of young
Daughters and the sons
Young, of young, young, young, young
Take it, it's yours, take it, it's yours
Take it, it's yours, take it, it's yours
Take it, it's yours, take it, it's yours
Take it, it's yours, take it, it's yours
Take it, it's yours
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Paul Westerberg
Bastards of Young lyrics © BMG Rights Management
