Tag: compassion

A Gentle Reminder

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It's a gentle reminder that all humans bleed red
And all of us sleep when we're in bed
Even if that bed be a floor 
In some prison that I abhor 
And the colour of our skin 
Do we let it in 
And seep into the crevices of our minds 
That would rather not leave anything behind
And do your guns fire on the criminal 
Because you've absorbed the subliminal 
Read between the lines 
And is it just a sign of the times
To say that movements must rebel 
Or we are all going to hell 
In the handbasket we have woven
Is this the path that we have chosen 
And you stand there and you utter that line 
Do you mean it this time 
I sense the falter in your step 
Does this even cross your greatest regret 
For you have build something huge 
But you get by on being rude 
To the people who come close to the line
That only you can define
And the bubbling wrath has simmered down 
But they're still burning someone else's town 
Because they're not adequately human 
As they defend what they're doing 
In principled tones 
Do you think we should leave them alone? 
To finish what they've started in the melee
I know what I'd do if it was me 
I would put beyond all use and commission 
The weapons they use without permission 
And rip to shreds another life on the ground
When a child cries do you hear the sound?

Space To Breathe

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Do you allow space to breathe for the other side
Because they need air to survive
And if you suck all of it out of the room 
Then you’re both falling into the doom 
Because they’re our brothers and sisters 
And they may be misled 
But they still fall asleep in their own bed
With a million things running through their head 
In the guise of something to protect
Because something reject 
What has always been 
And you might see it differently but the dream 
Will always stay the same 
Until you have given it a name 
And said its verse 
In a lyricism you cannot rehearse 
I know they have a point and I know I want change 
But also know that making strange 
Never helped me a day in my life 
I met the man and I became his wife 
Though he never knew 
And now you 
Must face the great wave 
Of being there when there are people to save 
And how can any of this do any good
When there are people paying with their blood 
For the slaughtered masses
As we learn in our history classes
That we are so beyond this now 
Til it breaks out and somehow 
I know we have not transcended 
An agreement yet to be amended
The injustice makes me quake 
But greater yet is the space that wake 
And hold the ground 
For the sheer absence of sound 
In the din 
If I praise Him 
Am I only a Christian 
Or do I live out the promised mission 
To its conclusion 
I think I see the root of the confusion 
Though I could be wrong 
Every syllable contains the song

Interconnection

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I don’t know what to do 
I just know I want to do something for you 
And if they’re bombing the crossing, people shelter there 
And I don’t know if they care 
If they see their targets as human beings 
With lives, with loves, with pains worth freeing 
And you would think the great illness would have brought us together 
Instead of this winter weather 
That always rains in the Middle East 
Another father, another doctor, another deceased 
And if this is not genocide 
Then I don’t know how anyone can hide 
Behind the rule of law 
And the great thaw 
That seems to be underway 
I know what the people say 
It’s everybody’s business when something’s on the line 
But something corporate is hard to define
As the wounded dance along and entwine
Protesting that everything’s fine 
But it’s not 
Have you forgot 
That mystery must always break into the unknown 
And when the grass has grown 
Will people look back with mute silence
Divesting their own part in the violence 
By mild complicity 
As the anger comes to your city 
In the guise of something new
We’re all interconnected and that means you

Monumental Shift

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I watch with breaking heart 
As my hands break apart 
And the students call for change
Meanwhile the studies rearrange
Themselves around a new constellation 
A new age, a new installation
And I’m powerful in my surrender
Something about me makes people remember
A land before time 
And it is not mine 
It is something else in the sea 
Vague remnants of eternity
That build itself into a fort 
I have nothing to report 
And do I go against the grain 
The great movement of monumental pain 
That seems to foreshadow a darkened age
And if we don’t clear the page 
Of all the words that have been written upon 
Then we’ll regret it when its all gone 
And I make no enemy 
But something has to be said about the unfree 
Who walk with chains on their hands 
Strangers in their own lands 
And its accusations of anti this or anti that 
But it’s about something you can’t take back 
Once it’s done 
And I’m still young 
But do I sacrifice 
My own life 
For what I can never be
I just wonder why they don’t see 
What they’re doing to a population 
And if your education 
Inoculates you to your humanity 
Then it isn’t worth the paper they hand you by any degree

The Blackened Sun

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The blackened sun shines from eyes that are undone 
And I remember from when I was young 
That adults paved the world of grey
And made you do what they say 
And it’s unconsciousness, it’s conflagration 
A darkness in a miseducation 
When you are taught to think 
But not taught to be aware of the sink 
In which everything will drain 
And must we let the pain 
Continue without reserve
I love the world but, my word
Humans are a violent creation 
And I can’t just switch the station 
For flick the TikTok 
Because it hurts a lot 
To see the children die 
And the mothers and fathers cry 
As they are dehumanised 
Like there are only bullets behind their eyes
And a two state solution 
Could be the answer to the revolution 
That is bubbling under the surface
I hope that they don’t hurt us 
For saying what we see to be true 
And I must stand with you 
For if we quake in cowardice 
We fuel a fire that burns us twice

Don’t Lose Your Humanity

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Don’t lose your humanity when you grow up 
Remember you were founded on love 
Like every good city
And there is self pity
And there is blame 
But know the name
That is given to you 
Is not all there is when they ask what is true 
And I put a flower in the shield of the riot policeman 
Because I know that only open hearts can
Remind a solider what he really is 
Not a function of what it means to merely exist 
As a job or as a duty 
There is beauty 
Within every man 
No matter what he can 
Entertain 
When he seeks salvation in vain 
In the trigger of the gun 
And the false notion that he is the only one 
Who feels this way 
But everything will eventually pass away 
But do you realise what is eternal in the now 
And if you do then what will you allow 
To happen on your watch 
Do you keep one eye on the clock 
As you hear it tick your life away
And you gather sand because you cannot stay
In an earthen grain 
And is it wrong that I see the pain 
In their mocking eyes 
As they disguise 
Their despair 
At having to go in there
And break what someone else built 
But now the milk is spilt 
And do we cry or do we clean it up 
Do we make it worse or do we love 
And hold the hand of the screaming baby 
Is that what it takes to save me? 

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The Futility And Helplessness

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The futility and helplessness sets the kettle to boil 
And I wouldn’t be a daughter of this soil 
If the tragedy of conflict didn’t run in my veins 
And if I didn’t understand their pains
As they’re bombed into an oblivion 
How do I forgive them 
For what they don’t know they do 
When they are crucifying you 
For all they want to gain 
Because of the mechanics of their pain
As it spins round and round 
And delivers verdict without a sound 
Only the deafening quiet of thunder
Another neighbourhood going under
To the sound of crush
And the people rush
To see who they can save
As western civilisation cave
Under the weight of its own oppression
And every truth seems like a confession 
We make in the dark 
And we scroll past the things that leave a mark
And I watch young men in suits 
Brush past the truth
Like it is an inconvenient stare 
That they don’t want to admit is there 
When they don’t want it to be 
And if the Mediterranean Sea
Is the only place you can find solid ground
You know the silence has been lost in sound

Each Grain Of Sand

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It’s a nightmare we’re all dreaming
And somewhere the children are screaming
And it aches in my heart and it pulls at my soul
Something crushes the begging bowl
And flattens the land
The hills and valleys that used to understand 
All the movement and all the sighs
I watch a brother break as his sibling dies
And his wails of pain seem all to familiar to me
Because I know the crushing weight of the sea
As it pummels the shore 
What is left to adore
In this broken world
And if I am just a girl
How do I effect change
But I watch the stars rearrange
Every season in the sky
As I ask God why
He could allow such things
And if the spirit has wings
Does it fly away from here
When it’s separated from the ones we hold dear
In a man made disaster
And there is no plaster
Than can fix bullet holes 
And we’re all just supposed to play our roles
In this great big cosmic machine
And I thank God that it is just a dream
As I rouse to wake
The people that die for humanity’s sake 
I feel something break
And go free in me
Are we doomed to repeat history
Or can we be the change we want to see
If there’s a man in the mirror it starts with me

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The Place That We Meet

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Why do I get to sit by my fire
While the people in the Middle East tire
Of being ignored by the Western world
And I’m just a girl 
What difference can I make 
I am not one to shake 
Out the tree 
Of indignity 
And revolutionise 
The way the hope dies
And the children, the children, the children bleed
And I know that all they need
Is some warm food in their bellies
No waiting til after dinner to give them jellies
And there’s a protest dying 
Somewhere a mother is crying 
Over her son 
And I wish I could be the one 
To soothe the pain 
But the rain 
Doesn’t fall when you need it to 
We are told there’s nothing we can do 
As the educated eejits make bombs of war
I don’t know what it’s for 
If not to destroy 
How can you teach a boy
That he shouldn’t push that button red
But the temptation overcomes instead
Because to expand your land 
Is the fuel to the demand 
Of a heart never satisfied 
I don’t know but I think that the truth died

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In The Centre Of A Circle

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I know you’ve got a wife
And I believe that it’s for life 
When you make a promise to someone 
And I know that the sun
Has gone down on what we were 
I used to be angry at her
For taking you away from me
Bitter coz you didn’t stay with me 
And I was flying high
And you just wanted to die
I could feel it in my bones 
When we left our homes 
You know the one in LA
And no matter what you say
We can’t put it back together
And you just live in the rainy English weather
While I soak up the sun 
And now that it’s done 
I can finally breathe 
Because what we both need
Was not the claustrophobia and smother
I was your girl, not your mother 
And they all write about us
But there just was this trust
Between us
I though I had dreamed us
Up
But then my cup 
Overflows and spills all over the floor
And the one that I adore 
Is many miles away
And not just physically and so I pray
To the God I claim to know
How do I let you go? 
When you mean it all to me
Is there a past tense to infinity? 
And does it mean now that the rose is in my garden 
That I shouldn’t be so hard on him 
For what he could not be
I couldn’t hold on so I let you go free
I always thought you’d come back to me 
But forever is now part of our history 

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Machine Gun Eyes

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Dead bodies and machine gun eyes
I think they believe the lies
That they are fed
And when they lie in bed
They must stop the truth from reaching them 
And life must be teaching them 
How to bear the weight they’ve been gifted
I sweat in my jumper that’s been thrifted
From some nearby store
And I just wanted to change it more 
But how do you compete with belief
And you just feel relief 
When it falls away from you 
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what to do
What matters is that you’re wiling to be led
Not blind opposition to what’s being said 
And I watch Ben Gvir shout his refrain 
Does he even know the pain 
He’s in and so inflicts 
They say that some day wars will be fought with sticks
After we’ve destroyed ourselves
Why do you put them in cells
If they are brother and sister tide
Please leave the Palestinians alive
You’ve done enough
And, God knows, it wasn’t out of love
It was to feed that old demon 
That’s always dreaming 
He will rule the world 
And what does it matter what says this girl 
Who is just a child of Irish rain 
And our own kind of particular pain 
As we live on the land
Our ancestors once couldn’t understand
As it was stolen from beneath them 
Until someone bequeath them 
Their own patch of ground 
And do you hear the sound
Of the child cry
Why must I be the one to let her die? 

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Mo Stór

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We watch it unfold before our eyes
Another day, another Palestinian dies 
And their culture is erased like it has no meaning
And the people are not dreaming
Because it’s no nightmare
But a reality that would scare 
The most stoic into submission
I don’t need anyone’s permission
To say what I feel to be true
The end of the genocide starts with you
And I, as we raise a voice to lift the blockade
So that the only shade
The children know is that of a tree
Palestine is forever free
No matter the walls and doors
Checkpoints and bombed out floors
But a spirit nothing can kill
If I know anything it’s that Love never will
Ever be defeated
And my courage has not retreated 
Far enough that I will not say
I can see another way
For the tide to beat the shore 
You are not alone, mo stór

The Feminine Advance

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Is it wrong I don’t want to “have kids”
And I reject the idea of being his 
Because I don’t want to be owned
Always revelling in the unknown 
And my sister thinks it’s the only way
But I have learned that what she say
Is only an expression of how she sees
And it’s not up to me to believe 
In something I don’t want 
Forty two and the haunt
Eating up my heart and soul 
And is it Jackie and Wilson to be whole 
Because when you hit thirty everyone expects
You to just have sex
And make three out of two
Or more if possible to issue from you
And when you’re a teen they warn you that 
Your life will be ruined if you create something you can’t take back 
And I watch all these children dying 
In foreign countries and they’re crying 
And I just want to reach out and touch
And tell them I love them so much
And I am doing everything I can 
To resist the man 
Who says that war is the way to peace
And all these people that decease
Are just casualties and collateral damage 
How can he stand the carnage
And I know it’s not up to me to blame
And no one really is their name 
They are the depths and so much more
But I must tell you, mo stór 
That you are paving the path to hell
And I can’t just stay out of it and wish you well 
Or be obstinate refuse
Boycott the brands I will not use
I must let a new dream birth
And create a new dawn all over the earth
What is the feminine reveal 
Is that she can only ever steal 
That which is not real 

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I Don’t Know Where To Start

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She’s buried under the weight of timber
And she calls me a sinner
For what she cannot see
That it has devastated me 
And he looks at me that way
And there’s so much I want to say
But I can’t and now it’s never
That’s the hard part of forever
It doesn’t let go
And so 
I let the waves rise up 
To overflow the cup 
Of water I’ve been drinking 
They say that it’s overthinking 
But somehow it feels more real 
And it’s just that she cannot deal
With her own grief she fires at dart at me
And I don’t have the heart to let it be
I storm up a flame and turn away
Go deaf to everything she say
Coz it’s all a repetition 
Of something she learned in some edition 
Of something she read 
And I never said 
What I meant 
But when I sent 
That letter true
I thought it would deliver to you
But it must have missed the mark 
Now I’m just swinging swords in the dark 
And hoping to connect 
With a dream I seem to have wrecked
With my steady brutality
Oh, the weight of what’s been placed on me
Is a blessing true
And all of this because I lost you

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Éire Go Deo

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I watch the images of bombed out bars
And burnt out cars
On city streets 
And I know that the heat
Is born from a fervour deep and true
I feel it in me and I see it in you 
And somehow peace has found a way
To hold and that’s the order of the day
It’s been 800 years
And so many women have cried tears
Over lost sons 
And I could be the one 
To finally unpeel 
The way they made our nation feel
As they circumscribe the land
And say this must be tilled by hand
And no more than so many yards
I don’t even know how hard
It must have been 
And my dream 
Has been rocked
Like the walls made up by people locked
In Connemara by the rule of the day
To hell or to Connaught, isn’t that the way
And we can bark orders and we can make decrees
But that Ireland isn’t me
It’s something other
It’s living and breathing for your brother 
And dying with hands crushed together 
Nowadays we just complain about the weather 
But the sadness is embedded in the roots
Of the great tree that began as shoots 
From the fertile soil 
I feel my blood boil 
When someone talks about English rule
The things they taught us in school 
About how to bend and break 
And why they did it for our sake 
And we must be respectful, too
Because they are human just like you
Then someone utters a word
And just like that the bird
Of hatred is born 
Because the fire of fear is still warm 
And glowing embers 
Not everyone knows but the heart remembers 
Even when the mind forgets 
And it’s not over yet
Not till the trauma storm 
Has made the people realise they warm 
Their hands on the coals of the past 
And in some ways people are classed
In the stratosphere
I feel the time near
When we must stand up and be counted
Oh, what has it amounted
To but this 
Heaven is in the first kiss 

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Melting Brokenness

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My heart is touched
By the ones I love so much
And I can’t bear the loss
Bearing the heavy weight of cost
Of all this time 
And everything that’s mine 
Will one day belong to the sky
We do not know the hour we die
Or the day or the year
All I know is that a tear
Slides down my face
When something goes to waste
Because it was not said
And it pounds in my head
As I’m lying in bed
Hoping to stay warm
And all form 
Is permeable to 
The water that just wears through 
Our steady soul 
And the waves roll
Over the Burren floor
It was once at the bottom of the ocean and what’s more
It’s solidity 
Is only apparent when it’s taken from me 
To go sliding away 
I close my eyes to the day 
And embrace the night
Have people ask; “are you alright?”
And yes I am, but no I’m not 
Like asking a candle is it hot
As it slowly melts 
This is made to be felt 
As it sits in my chest
And holds the people I love the best 
In the Kilglass sun
What if everything is the One

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The Sadness That Embraces

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The inner child weeps
And she never sleeps
For all the people she loves
Will one day be above
Or at least that’s what they say
I don’t know if it is that way
But I’ve always felt the wrench
Felt the knot in my gut clench
As it tries to clasp
What it knows can never last
Not in a hundred million suns
Not in finding the sacred one
Because the heat must die
To find the reason that you try
To reach the sky
And I
Just find tears
Amidst all the years
And cling to the frame
The door that bears my name
But it can’t weather the storm 
Of the heart that beats me warm 
In the summer free
I feel death stalking me 
And in the winter fine
I feel that it is time
To let the leaves go
Let the winds blow
Let the waters flow
And find that there is no separation, you know

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She Keeps The Gate

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***Trigger Warning – Mental Health Content***

She keeps the gate between here and the other world 
And I know I seem just like a girl 
Having an existential crisis
But all of my vices 
Are my greatest strengths
Why did I bother to tell her where it went 
Like some kind of suicide
That happened while I was still alive
I saw the scene
And realised it was a dream 
That we were walking through 
And I opened the door right in front of you 
As I pointed out the way the flaws
Are how the ice thaws
Out in an age of snow
And glaciers that move so slow
I will not let go
But I must meet this part of me
I thought I needed help but really I just needed to be free
To explore and name
The source of my secret shame 
As it plays out on a page
The book of me and the rage
I kept inside
But the part of me that I hide
Is the best thing I own
And I know it wasn’t shown
On my face that day in the clinic 
But I’m not in the game just so I can win it
I am here for all of you 
And I want you to know I’ve walked through the trenches too
And made my way out
So if you live in self doubt
Let the mirage escape
Like wind from a balloon in the shape 
Of a dog or tree
I wouldn’t tell you if it hadn’t happened to me

Lost Causes And St. Jude

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South Africa’s leading the charge
And we are all floating on a barge
Down the river Thames 
Watching it happen again 
And over one hundred and fifty years ago 
The Irish were starved to death so 
The British could maintain their economy 
The invisible hand and the maize crop they take away from me 
So how do I not feel Palestine 
As though the struggle was mine
Babies screaming in the street
As the winter steals the heat 
And Israel bombs the buildings 
Do they not care for the children 
Who will grow up with war wounds
Or the ones who died too soon
The mothers, fathers, family, friends 
Is this how the world ends
Watching silently from the western front 
As a people bear the brunt 
Of what’s held in the unconscious 
And I don’t know what they want us
To do in the movement in between 
When they convince the dream 
That it is reality
But the lie is not getting the best of me

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The Embodiment Of The Prose

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The embodiment of the prose
That happens at the intersection of less travelled roads
Where you meet two parallel paths
And think of how God might have wrath 
For you and entice 
You into a darkness that isn’t nice
Because if you look in the biblical frame 
You’re talking to someone who has no name 
And you can call him Yahweh or Yeshua 
I just know that I wouldn’t mess with ya 
Not on any given Sunday
But trouble doesn’t come on a Monday
It was some idle Tuesday blue
That took me from you 
And I was just walking back
From the place where I lack
Everything that ever was
Do I lose you because
I didn’t pray for peace
Is there a reason why people decease
Before their time 
Which is always now if you ask the rhyme 
In the indulgent hues 
Now I just pay my dues
As they fall onto my desk 
Trust and have faith and forsake the rest 
As it eyes up my piece of bread 
But it’s all madness in my head
As I hear a million voices
Asking me if they have choices 
In why they are condemned to 
A kind of hell I’m party to 
And if I’m the only one who nears
Then do I run away when danger nears
Or do I open the gap
And shed light on the torn map
That says beyond this point 
You must not go because the anoint
Have adorned it a place for sinners
And all the winners 
That you have ever known 
Have only ever grown 
Through the pain of embracing the shadow 
I often wonder if I am bad, though

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The Commensurate Struggle

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The commensurate struggle under foreign rule 
And we learn about it in school
Like it is part of history
But there is so much that does not sit well with me 
Because I looked to the North of Ireland and could see
Blood on the streets as a child of 1990
And yet somehow there was an agreement that stemmed the tide
The flow of blood was silent outside
Though it still simmers underground
And I’m attuned to that sound 
As I hope it will rise only to be let go of
In place of a deeper kind of love
Now, bombs drop in the Middle East
And I wonder if our peace
Could be translated 
If the powerful could be educated 
In what it means 
To break nightmares into dreams 
For there are tens of thousands of children die 
Since the birth of the realm that made them cry
And I cannot stay silent and roll 
Like this is all there is in my soul 
Like I don’t have the blood of my ancestors proud
Who would say that the innocent and the loud
Should stand on equal footing 
And I know where they are putting 
The blame and why 
But no one deserves to die 
Before their time 
And is a war crime 
Only recognised in hindsight 
They starved us too 
From 1845 to ‘52
A million died
And mothers cried 
Others emigrated 
Now I’m listening to things the politicians stated 
As they barricade and siege 
With a terror you would not believe 
Leaving the people to disease 
And hunger and thirst 
I can only imagine the worse
As I hear the stories out of the Strip 
And soldiers as they equip
Themselves with weapons of war
Because they think they know what it’s for 
But when you look in their eyes do you see spirit 
And when a bomb drops and a child screams do you hear it
In the midnight of everyday 
Is it that you want a people to go away
And we were the Irish problem 
But somehow we were able to resolve them 
And for now, at least
A tenuous peace 
Holds in the dismantling 
Of the broken wing
At the heart of the tale 
Of how we are not up for sale 
And the people of the land 
Understand 
What it means to be driven home 
In a car all alone 
Thinking of a fellow kin 
And what they are doing to them
Under the guise of justification 
Saying we need an education 
In the politics of the Middle East 
Well I do and it’s the least
Thing I need to know it’s wrong 
When the materially strong
Use their force to betray
Everything in them that would say 
This is just not right 
What’s it like to be awake in Gaza tonight?

The Wars From Afar

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I was a teen when the war in Iraq broke out
And there was nothing I could do to stem the doubt
That no one should be invading a land
That they simply do not understand
And dictators come in many shapes and sizes
Some of them would be surprises
Because what’s viewed as a just war
Only depends on what you’re looking for 
And the bullets will be forever silent
If we abdicate the violent
And you could say I’m a pacifist
And we simply should not exist 
Because we put stability in danger
When we say that the manger
Should not starve a baby boy
And a gun is not a toy
And I’ve never been burdened by strife
I just rebel when he wants a wife
To make a house and home
But I love being on my own
Free to admire
Now I’m watching buildings on fire
And children screaming for their parents 
Wondering where the hell they went 
Not knowing, and maybe by grace
They get to see their faces
Again
And you can blame men
But it is the ego
It shoots what it doesn’t see though
And I am no liberator 
The queen of whatever and see you later 
But I can’t be superfluous about this 
It is not stuck in a kiss
It is in a scene that I could change 
If I just rearrange 
The way I see things play
Because it will never be okay
To raid a village and plunder and thieve
And feed the enemy things they might believe 
So that you can further your agenda
And you have some friends that will defend ya
But the foundations are rocky and unstable 
And what was born isn’t able
To reign in the suspense
Compassion’s in the present tense
And it is the only way
To redeem the wolves that bay
To the moon we all see
Let’s let the past be history

Notoriety

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The pain, it burns 
As I feel the sharp pang of the earth as it turns
Burying more bodies in the dust
What happened to the broken trust
We used to have in crumpled paper
How do we survive, do we just hate her
For standing on her own
Now the game is thrown
And no one wins
That’s the thing with sins
They just extrapolate
And draw more people into that state
Where darkness is the king
And some kind of ring
Sounds out in the dark
No one should bear the mark
Of what has come to pass
It’s not enough to just ace the class
You must live the lesson
How can this become a blessing
To be shared with our brethren 
Please listen, we’ve got to help them

The Aura Of Death

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Does all of humanity live within the sphere 
Of a death close enough that it’s ever near
And we may get a hundred years or so 
Or we might not, you just never know 
And I walk within the fear
Just so it becomes clear 
That the immortal in the form
Is that which was never born 
And is out of reach
Of the end that they teach
Is the conclusion of life on earth
And it might hurt
To fall but get back up
I am holding you, love 
And there’s nowhere a cloud can’t go
It wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t share what I know 
Coz I was fourteen and I writhe 
The cumulation of being alive 
Came crashing down 
And I felt I would drown 
In the ocean of it all
When suddenly the brick wall
Just fell to the floor
And I adore 
What got back up
You could call it love 
The living breathing apparition 
Of what happens when fission 
Pulls itself back together 
And heals the wound 
The room
Faded from view 
But you 
Never did 
And it’s worth a couple quid 
Just to say
That I am okay 
Come what may
In the fray
Of the life we know
I held on then It let go

One World Community

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Holding space for war torn regions
With the strength of prayer
So they know that love is there
And the fighters on the extreme
Are only caught up in the dream
Never knowing what they do
But what would you do if it was you
And if you had the power to make change
Would you think it a bit strange
That some people resist
There’s nobody on my list
Coz I have let go of enmity
But I stay vigilant coz integrity 
Means being aware that it could come back 
The ego hiding in the lack

Second State Fine

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There’s a new thing brewing
But can it keep its head
Cause the parapet is raised
And so many people lie dead
But I climb up the rock
There’s a world of things that I am not
As the sun in the sky
Shines over the seas as they go by
And it’s hopping over there
On the Western front and I care
About how it all goes down
I left half my heart in that town 
And now I go back
Before the attack
In shoes that I can walk
What does it take to see through the talk
Into what is true
Is there any way I can save you
From your fate
The demolition that lies in wait
I shake the dust off my shoulders
I’m like Icarus chasing boulders
That have no business in that myth
But the world is chomping at the bit 
And this is just a dragon I dance with
In my hope for a new born truth
A time beyond the confines of youth
As we let the shackles drop
What does it take for one person to say stop 
And breathe
What do the people need
Can we shift the scene
Out of this nightmarish dream 
I know no one who can say
That everything is okay
When we just let it crumple
If there’s lightning then thunder will rumble

The Waiting Air

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In a place where the cold seems waiting
Left in love, don’t give way to hating
As the scenery revolve
And everything is a problem to solve
As you, ashen faced, stare at me
And I avoid your gaze coz I know we’ll be
Always an eternity
Forever lapping like the sea
Against the shore 
Could you wish for more
You open up like a closed door

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The New Domain

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A rising tide lifts all boats
But that only works if the damn thing floats
Else you have a tidal wave
And drown the people you’re trying to save
And are we crushing the flower we walk upon
Will we only know when it’s gone
When it’s too late to turn back
Fighting over what we lack 
Or will there be a new tomorrow 
Where we wake up from all the sorrow
Into a domain of peace
Where forgiveness is our just release
And what part do I play
Do I stand up for what I can’t say
As it ushers in a new command
Aren’t we too wise to fight over land?

Starships

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What is a starship when it's at home
And must a tomcat always roam
Or be swan faithful by the sea
Like the Children of Lír that wait for me 
And was there some kind of ancient fable
That monumental on the table 
Made enough bread for us all to eat
But there's millions in the bank and death on the street
How can we let this continue 
As if loss is on the menu
And the rolling hills of vagabonds
Play the fool like two dumb blondes
And I know this is not the female's fault 
But we go along with the lie we've bought
As a child not of our womb
Starves to death in an empty room 
Full of faces who just placade
And there are millions in that state
As we deny, deny
We just simply shouldn't try
To bring this to fruition
Just spending more on ammunution
Seems to relieve a conscience broke
From all the words we have not spoke 
And I cannot speak for myself
Because I have my own story of wealth
And how I try to keep it from my door
But if I had it I could give more
And make a change on that plain
But what if I could not contain
The contempt and the corruption 
Like Vesuvius and eruption
Like lava and all it encases
The modern history and what it erases
Or geography to keep us asleep 
To the promise that together would keep 
And am I just out on the run
Or do I speak to some 
Who feel the same way I do 
The conundrum and me and you

In The Depths

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I have no enemy to speak of 
When they say love is just a drug
They cannot refer to the same thing that I 
Would give another and be ready to die
To protect 
The whole thing seems wrecked
But there's a summer in the snow
And there are places we can't go 
When we sum up the surmise
That is a horizon in my eyes
Shining even in the dark 
And as I'm walking in the park
I know my saviour walks with me 
Protecting me from history
As a state of mind
Just love and be kind 
And let the world know who you are 
Does the sun approximate a star
Or is it just far too close
Is is the Spirit or the Ghost
That I feel in the rhythm of shoes
That mark my footsteps in twos
As they hold the pavement ground
Deftly so that a sound
Issues forth from where they meet
I look up and welcome sleet

The Movement Forward

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Do I speak what I have to say
Does the shaking in my hand give away
The sword that I cannot steady
But the worst is happening already
On land I see on a screen
And this is not the people's dream 
To have machine gun hands facing them 
Is it gonna happen again
Or can we realise
That you can't undo what dies
Once it is gone
And we've been fighting for so long
Not just with each other but within oursleves
One earns a million, another's stacking shelves
And you can say that's capitalism
Or that there's a split in the great schism
As we find what we have in common rooms
Is there a way to waylay the doom
That seems to advance from all sides
But, hey man, we're still alive
And we can still tell the tale
Of something that's not up for sale 
In this thing that we've built
There's scaffolding over milk that's spilt
But as I clean up the glass
I think of something I'd never taught to ask 
Are we all as one
And if we are then could the sun
Shine in every human heart
As the most expansive part
Generating compassion to a degree
I know it's not just me 
That feels that something's in the mix
Fusing bonds that science splits 
To generate something new for us
I believe in Love and I trust
In the human heart once more
The truth that something adore

The Flow Of Superfluity

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The flow of superfluity 
Allows me to write
But do I stand up 
For what I know is right 
Coz there's ancient eons
Creaking with the weight
There are girls crying out 
Like they're on a first date 
And the man has just 
Produced a pistol
I can't hide from 
All the vitriol 
That just pours through
So I try to compose 
A letter to you
So that you might know
That from where I'm standing
The world and its discontents 
Can be too demanding
But I don't fail 
At the final hurdle 
I just shift my stance
Like I'm playing wordle 
And there is no monument 
Or mountain to climb
That's out of reach 
Of the Sublime
So I'll just keep my breath
Like it's a tic tac toe
But I'll be true
Always, you know

Remind Them Of Their Humanity

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Remind them of their humanity
Don’t let it switch off
It’s not long living
But all is not lost
Coz there is a molten core
At the heart of everyone 
Nuclear fusion
Brighter than the sun
And it burns irregardless
Of the darkness you put yourself through
Don’t deny
All that is you
And I know it
Coz I’ve been through the night
But in the midst of the storm
The eye is alright
And I trust in the value
Of what makes us real
Is it intuition
Or the way that I feel
That tells me there’s an end
To a fighting soul
The wave is the ocean
Even if it has to roll
And you’re still what you are
Even in the confusion
Wake up from dread
And the delusion
That we are separate 
From each other
Walking the plains
As sister and brother
And opening a sky
That will soothe with rain
We don’t have to
Go through this again
And I’m a reporter 
On the front line
I don’t think we can do this
Another time

As You Are

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The burning furore that sits in my chest
The need to always be the best
And speak out what no one’s talking to
Is it wrong to put the spotlight on you
To shine away what’s been kept hidden
It’s beautiful, it is unbidden
And it’s longing just to find a home
You’re beautiful as you are, alone

Walking Flame

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I’m a walking flame
I don’t go by any name
And anyone who’d dare surprise
Me by looking in my eyes
Washed away like the river flow
And there’s more that I do not know
Than I can wrap my head around
If they ask will you make a sound
Just to show that you are there
What is the meaning of true care
When it’s at home
All I know is I’m not alone
And solitude is all in one
Unforgiven and the Son
That died for all our sins
Shows me that Love always wins

The Regressive Movement

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Are we on the brink
Of a regressive movement 
Where the skies go black
And we lose it
All to a dream
Of forever
Can we keep rowing
A hopeful endeavor 
Down the river to the sea
And I’m just checking
Does He mean me?
When He says girl
Go do my will
I gotta shape up until
Destiny takes me by the hand
Says, love, it’s gonna be grand
But all I can see are these castles made of sand
And people crying out for a superman 
Are we really going back
To a dark age
I spill my heart in 
Ink upon the page
Say show me a way
United not divide
Where everyone has their say
And we value what’s alive
And for all the forecasts
The doommongering prophecy 
I am still absorbed 
By this light inside of me
That never dims, it only grows
With the heat of love it glows
Into a warm embrace
And He’s in every face
Like He lifted up His arm
And the sea was calm
So do I need to be frightened 
Over the enlightened 
Am I just Peter holding on to You In case he sinks
Is that my relationship to You
It could be methinks
But how do I just trust 
In the words that You say
That you are with me Now
Always and everyday



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The Calm Amid The Storm

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There’s a blizzard brewing
There’s a storm atremble 
And things are beyond
What they used to resemble
As the new earth is birthed 
Into consciousness 
Don’t go saying
It doesn’t exist
Just close your eyes
And feel the breeze
Forgiving you
Get up off your knees
And stand firm
Stand strong, stand true
As the winds are howling
All around you
Make your stance
On a solid foundation
It’s a peaceful sort of
Education
As you trust the silence
To ever be
Whispering words 
Of eternity
In the midnight, in the dawn
At the close of day
I just have this feeling
That it’s all okay
That we’re being taken care of
No matter what it seems
Don’t trust in the
Thin fabric of dreams
But on the rock
Where you plant your foot
Let the rain wash away
What you’re afraid of

Darkness Tremble

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Trusting in the Christ
Was the best decision of my life
And I’m no girl to be a wife
Just one to bring the light
And I’ve always trusted in you
From the living room to the pew 
Singing songs in tribute to
The glory and the faith I have in you
And darkness eventually came to call
I’m young and lying against a wall
Crying tears in a free for all
But you brought the love to stop the fall
And lift me up, now I’m on my feet
And I know there’s nothing I could meet
That would bring me defeat
Now that your mercy speak
For me amongst the chasm so bleak
How am I standing if I’m weak
And there’s nothing left to seek
Now that I’ve found that holy heat
That burns in the heart of me
A consciousness that’s been set free
As I proclaim eternity
In every blade of grass that I see
Called upon to be the voice
To speak silence in the noise
And draw all souls into you 
Just tell me what to do

Kissing the Sky

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Funny feeling that though he may not want me I am still okay
And that I can survive on the love of every day
From the plants, from the trees and nonetheless from him
For though he may deny it I know it beats within
In blood and in veins that are solid gold
But so are mine I see, though I have not been told
To look and revolutionise the vision of my palms
I am the lake, the ocean and these are my calms
No enforced stability, no discipline held high
Just the truth of a being that knows something that can’t die
And sees it in the rushing movement of the leaves
All the world is heaven to one who needs nothing to believe
And smile to myself, in a secret, silver fold
I never knew the universe was there for me to hold
In its peril and its fantasy, it’s motion and the tide
I am the evidence of the thing you’ve never tried
So sincerely honest in the feelings that maintain
That there lies beneath a sunlight that will overcome the pain