Song For Son

Love is not just a word
Life is more than you heard
Truth is only what you know
Faith is not just what you show
Hope is the deepest part
The beauty of the faithful heart

It doesn’t burst upon the soul
The heart, the mind
They just know
It lives and grows and is
With strength and depth and breadth and all
It holds against the strongest pull

It’s not a flash, a crash of oh!
It’s just there
You just know
It’s not a sudden waking up
It just is
Love

I didn’t ask for it
I didn’t hope for it
I didn’t even know it was
Until I knew
It always was
And always is

I look at him, it’s there
I never understood
I could live with such fear
Within the fear is trust
And the knowledge that I can
And will always feel this love

Hopes, dreams, wishes, wants
Nothing without him
Work, fight, walk, run
To give all I am for him
Lift, push, hold, let go
All for him
My son.

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Bad Choice

She's gonna be a bad girl
With a choice
Better than a good girl
With no voice
She's gonna be a bad girl
With a choice
And she'll choose
Who'll abuse her
Again and again and again

She's gonna give up her soul
To the night
Better than trying and crying
And losing the fight

She's gonna be a bad girl
Creating her own dark world
She's gonna take the pain
She's gonna wear the blame
Like a badge of honour she's earned

She's gonna live it like she sees it
Believing her own lies
The fault is hers
Better than she had no choice
No voice, no right to deny
She believes she's free
How can she be
When she keeps him locked inside

She's gonna be a bad girl
With a choice
Better than a victim
With no voice
She's gonna be a bad girl
With a choice
And she'll choose
Who'll abuse her
Again and again and again

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What The Child Knows

The child knows no hate

The child knows no war

The child knows no religion

The child knows no church

The child knows no colour

The child knows no race

The child knows no country

The child knows no politics

The child knows no law

The child knows no culture

The child knows no history

The child knows no grudge

The child knows no sex

The child knows no master

The child knows only that it is

The child knows more than us

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Tongues

Tree شجرة arbre staude arba
Hat قبعة chapeau hut ĉapelo
Bird طائر oiseau vogel birdo
Heart لب cœur herz koro
Hope أمل espoir hoffnung esperi
Love محبوب amour liebe amo
Peace سلام paix frieden paco
Child إنتاج enfant nachkomme ido
Play تمثيلية jeu spiel ludi
Trust إتفاق منتجين confiance vertrauen konfidi
Joy فرح joie freude ĝojeco
Give أعطى donner bestimmt donaci
Share قسمة part anteil dividi
Care حذر attention sorge prizorgo
Forgive سامح pardoner verziehen pardoni
God إله Dieu Götze Dio

Gun مدفع revolver kanone fusilo
Bomb قنبلة bombe bombe bombo
Knife شفرة السيف couteau messer tranĉilo
War حرب guerre krieg milito
Hate كراهية haine hass malami
Take صورة prise strechen preni
Break استراحة cassure bruch dividstreko
Kill حظر mise à mort abschuss mortigi
Shame خجل honte scham fi
Anger غضب colère ärger kolero
Blame لام faute schuld riproĉi
Fear خوف peur angst timi
Loss خسارة perte verlust perdo
Soul نفس روح âme seele animo
Devil شيطان Demon Teufel Diablo

Many tongues, many words, one meaning
Many cultures, many ways, one beginning
Many reasons, many excuses, one ending
Many people, many lands, one world
One creator, one destroyer, many hands

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All The Things I'll Never Say

I'd cut you out of my heart
If I could
But you haven't been there
Since childhood

You don't know me
Don't know who I am
You created me
But I made me
With my own hands

You gave me life
Then walked away
Made me feel
I was a debt you'd paid

I'd cut you out of my heart
If I could
But you haven't been there
Since childhood

You believe I hate you
With all of my soul
Because I gave up on you
So long ago

But one little thing
You never could see
You just don't mean
That much to me

I'd cut you out of my heart
If I could
But you haven't been there
Since childhood

You never need, wanted
Or cared to be
Even a minor part
Of the life I lead

I never mattered
No matter how I tried
Now you wonder
Why I say goodbye

I'd cut you out of my heart
If I could
But you haven't been there
Since childhood

I don't hate you
Couldn't if I tried
I have a life of my own to live
And you are just too much
Wasted time

I would cut you out of my heart
If I could
But you chose not to be there
In my childhood

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The Man

Are you coming home to me
Do you want to be with me
Build your dreams with me
Take on the world with me
Are you free

Can you spare a thought for me
Alone in our bed
Waiting for you
I’d wait for eternity
If I knew you would be mine

There’s a thought inside my mind
A dream inside my heart
You inside my soul
A future and a past
Can we be together
Can we get past the past

Lying all alone
Thinking of a dream
A man I met not long ago
So sweet, hurt, all alone
Afraid to make a choice
A move towards the light
Holding on to the past
Heart closed so tight

There is a man I’d like to know
The man inside the man
So gentle and so sensitive
Afraid of so much pain
Living with the memories
Losing more to gain
Can he be the man I love
Or is he just a dream
I hope I never wake up.

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Weightless

This pain is mine alone
There is none here for you
The tears are mine also
To shed when I remember you

The anger, the fear and the guilt
I'll carry deep inside
You cannot have it now
It's all I've left of you for only mine

I'd fight the demon
I'd battle the monster
As you did when I was small
I'd beat them down if only I could

I'd drag you back from heaven
I'd make you stay
But I need all the strength I have
Just to carry all my pain

I'd bring you back to my world
And never let you go
If only I knew for sure
I could bring you back whole

This pain is all mine now
There is no more for you
The tears I'll shed alone
When I remember you

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Just Go

Reach the sky
Don't look back
See how far you can go
Don't say goodbye
Just go

No regrets
To hold you down
No burdens of guilt
No dreams undone
Just go

This is your time
Your moment to fly
Forever in forever
No time to say goodbye
Just go

Don't stay just for me
For what could've been
Let go, don't worry
You have a new journey
Just go

You have places to go
Where I cannot be
So much to do
I cannot share
Just go, do, be
I'll see you again
When it's time for me

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Angel Too Soon

I looked into your eyes
And saw pain
I looked deeper
And saw peace
Forever in a moment
The stars yours to reach

I held you close
As you drifted far
Tighter in my arms
You couldn't be
Gone forever
Gone beyond my reach

I loved you too much
To let you go
But not enough
To keep you close
Our past kept us together
Till the last bindings broke

I listened to your heart
And heard it no more
As mine tore
I couldn't keep it beating
In a moment too soon
You were gone

Your last breath
My first alone
My last memory of you
The moment you became
An angel too soon

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Letting Go

Letting go is hard to do
But I won't hold on
I wouldn't do that to you
You have your life
Your family and friends
It's time to move on
Maybe one day we'll be friends
I treasure each moment
We spent in the sun
Now it's time for the shadows
To return to this one
I never told you
What I wanted to say
My feelings for you
Run deep through the pain
I fell for a man
I could not hold
Now it's time to let go
Say goodbye and remember
The times that we shared
Go on and be happy
You don't belong here
I'll pick up the pieces
As I always do
And move on to the future
Alone with my memories of you
I'll let go as I know you will too
I won't hold on
I'd never do that to you

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Afganistan Women

Equals
That's what they really were
Standing, living, fighting beside their men
Laughing, loving, dying for themselves
When war came, they stood
Together as equals
How did it come about
They now shy away from life
They hide their faces
Because they are told to
Doctors, nurses, teachers no more
Lawyers, painters, mothers now slaves
These strangers that once were powerful women
Cowering beneath the boots of men
Men from across someone elses border
Overnight their peace and equality was lost
The women now beg for scraps
After the men and dogs have eaten
The wives flogged for presumption
Children raised to hate and scorn their own mothers
They are the life givers and nurturers
But the cry of "Evil" resounds
If they so much as look in a mans eyes
Or show an inch of skin
From Equal to Evil
How did it happen
And who the hell are these men
From foreign lands, to say this is so

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Fundamental Flaw

You are weakness
You are fool
You are religions
Fundamental tool

You are coward
You are shame
You hide your women
To hide your blame

You cry freedom
For your land
Yet imprison your women
Beneath your hand

You claim your martyrs
Your leaders of men
Army of God
Your honour, pretense

Who are you
To raise your hand
And claim God's will
As you demand

You lie, you cry, you kill, you die
You fight and fall
In religions war
That my friend is
Your Fundamental Flaw

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