Disconnected Full Band Arrangement (By The Disconnected Band)

This is the full band version of "Disconnected" an original song that I recently downloaded as a solo voice and guitar arrangement. (Lyrics and Photo Credits below)

The music to "Disconnected" was originally featured as an instrumental in a video entitled "Illegal Dumping City of San Jose." This video was picked up by Maria Medina, who featured a story about the illegal dumping and trash and a growing homeless encampment along the stretch of Monterey Highway (between Coyote and Morgan Hill) on KPIX Channel 5 news. Maria interviewed me {the resident) and then included the responses from City Counsel person Sergio Jimenez and Mayor Sam Liccardo.

The KPIX video generated a response that lead to a clean up of the area, but it also made me realize that there were more encampments springing up all over my city.

I created a full band arrangement of "Disconnected" and included background photos of various homeless encampments around the city to bring attention to the homeless problem in San Jose. I see this as a microcosm of a macrocosm because I know that there are so many people who have been displaced and are struggling right now in several cities across my state and throughout the country.

If I can accomplish anything with this video, I hope I can bring more attention to this problem and bring help to these people. Homelessness requires help beyond providing shelter or financial assistance; a successful program should also include drug rehabilitation programs, health and mental health services and domestic abuse programs.

Thanks for reading this and for taking a moment to listen to my video!

Lyrics to Disconnected

(Chorus)
How did you and me
Become disconnected?
Are we
Canceled and rejected?
And when
The problem’s dissected
It’s clear
We’ve both been infected...

Don’t want homeless people
In their neighborhood…
Between feces and the garbage
It don’t look good.
Don’t look for a solution
When there’s nothing there...
Just give an inch of ground
If there’s something to spare...

Flashing red lights…
A car stuck in the cold…
Homeless man sleeping
Under a bridge by the road.
A child goes to bed
With nothing to eat;
She can’t sleep when she hears
people fighting in the street.

A drive by shooting…
A hit and run car…
An Amber Alert
They won’t get far.
A crime scene photo…
Yellow tape, “Don’t Cross;”
She was just a little girl…
Another life lost,

A police shooting…
Stand up for Black Lives…
How soon do they forget?
How many more die?
The police killed him…
We heard it on the news;
It only takes one spark
To light the fuse.