Roads Less Travelled

Album: Wild And Free (2011)
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  • Ziggy Marley is the oldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and the father of six children. On this song he sings about how he's taken a different route from his father and family. He explained to Spinner UK: "It just means I do things on an independent level, kinda like what my father's idea was. But in my personal family life - if you had an eye into my family, you'd see that I kind of stepped out of the family environment and went out on my own, into a new environment. So things like that. And I mean each of us think differently. I think one way and another family member might think another way. My father think one way, my mother think another way, and I think how I think. I take another road and I probably take roads that other people wouldn't take or try things that other people wouldn't try, do things other people wouldn't do. I see things how other people wouldn't see it."

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