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A Father's Hope
04:30
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Two pairs of trousers, a shirt and some tape
is all that he offered the sea
along with his money worn to thin
and his last identity
the planks on which he placed his trust
those cold and weary feet
setting forth from loss towards belief
The last sight of land, the darkening shade
the cold depths where life is discreet
that same sea on which in just ten days
two hundred souls found sleep
the surface whispers broken dreams
where hope fights desperately
to pitch it's chance into the rising wind
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Yaseed's fear
05:02
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A tension brews behind these walls
I feel that we are changing
there's a certain hope that's bound to fall
of desperate hearts kept waiting
above it all there reigns a fear
the old pain's not forgotten
once the risk made our choice clear
but now our will is rotting
Permission's so much like a threat
when held by those in power
patiently they make their bets
they watch and let doubt flower
if they can catch and crush our hope
they'll offer their salvation
the acceptance of the hangman's rope
to relieve this degradation
Death is what we ran from there
and patiently it follows
pushed by time towards despair
the self is stale and hollow
Permission's so much like a threat
when held by those in power
patiently they make their bets
they watch and let doubt flower
and when you're told they'll send you back
it completes the equation
the mind collapses, something cracks
and heeds the blade's persuasion
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Wait
04:10
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Wait, little bird
wait and you'll be free
this decision must be made
but not so carelessly
wait, little bird
leave it all to me
empowered I know more than you can see
Wait, common heart
wait away the years
in the dark your eyes adjust
the empty cell made dear
wait, common heart
wait and trust your fear
drown your hopes beneath your quiet tears
Wait, fragile soul
wait and know your place
the belief in life is felt and shared
but yours needs to be traced
wait, fragile soul
I will keep you safe
until I find the proof of your disgrace
Wait, dearest child
wait and learn to trust
that change and all it's sweet relief
will only come from us
wait, dearest child
wait long for you must
wait and watch the bars until they rust.
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Phoenix
02:29
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Maybe if I refuse to eat
then you will hear my voice
I'll take the pain that they began
and prove my final choice
maybe if I refuse to drink
and make the dear earth moist
I'll sink towards asylum and rejoice
Maybe if I refuse to speak
I'll have a chance to sew
express the secret suffering
that they will never know
maybe if I can pierce and pull
my lips forever closed
the feeling of dissent will somehow grow
Maybe if I can light a fire
something here will change
I'll find a use for my lost heart
that's twisted and deranged
maybe if I can light the way
with passion dear and strange
the phoenix will arise out of the cage
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A Mother's Loss
04:48
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My poor little girl
all the things I've put you through
what else was I to do
I did it all for you
my poor little girl
how was I supposed to know
that they would have you thrown
into a cell alone
my poor little girl
when you asked them for their help
could they know the loss you felt
as their white hand left it's welt
my poor little girl
just past ten you've met despair
the love that they don't share
makes the future cold and bare
my poor little girl
I have failed to give you hope
for I have lost my own
twisted and ingrown
my poor little girl
you stare with empty eyes
your lips are cracked and dry
your cheeks as cold as ice
my poor little girl
lost without a voice
you proved you had a choice
you've shown where life is poised
my poor little girl
brought from strife to strife
detained and out of sight
a child takes it's life.
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A Prayer
03:49
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Praying for a window on a wall
not to touch or even heed the call
just to know that my lot is not all
to see the flow of life for mine has stalled
praying through a gap between the bars
to see the distant hope of dwindling stars
silent so as not to spread my scar
I think of home and search my memory's shards
praying just to feel I'm not alone
that still a part of me remains my own
that something in this life is set in stone
despite the depths to which my heart is thrown
praying and I truly do believe
for others here have suffered just like me
and somewhere in this pain that makes us we
I've seen something that brings me to my knees.
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Return
02:43
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What part belongs to both of us
the free and the detained
what's the part that makes us we
and what does it contain
what lives without a thought in ease
or trapped by hate decays
what can it do to give this thing a name?
Who am I beneath the weight
of tyranny and force
how can I exist in time
when they have stopped it's course
I fall and no-one hears the sound
so no-one feels remorse
how was I to know what was in store?
How can power grant belief
and crush another life
cut away the fraying threads
that run from hand to kite
who can see their suffering
and still proclaim the right
to dive into the long and darkening night?
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