Song Description
We're connected. Part of the same tree. What happens to children anywhere effects all of us, everywhere.
| Song Length |
3:12 |
Genre |
Jazz - Lounge |
Lyrics
A Child in the Merciless Sun
Lyrics:
[Intro] Every innocent child on this vast Earth is a single leaf on our ancient, straggly tree --
[Verse 1] a living witness to our roots and spirit. Each leaf, whether trembling under the toxic winds over Gaza or on the frozen damp soils of Ukraine, holds our longing for life, for life ...and our sorrow.
[Chorus] Is not our moral sinew, like the sturdy trunk and branches of this great tree, continually tested, bearing the weight of these countless tender leaves?
[Verse 2] To ignore their rustling cries is to watch them shrivel in the merciless sun, as the roots of our humanity rot to indifferent soil below.
[Bridge] Each leaf, whether trembling, holds our longing for life, Our roots and spirit, a living witness.
[Chorus] Is not our moral sinew, like the sturdy trunk and branches of this great tree, continually tested, bearing the weight of these countless tender leaves?
[Outro] Every innocent child, every single leaf, on our ancient, straggly tree -- a witness to our spirit, to our relentless test, under the merciless sun, in the indifferent soil.
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