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[Powderworks] Say your prayers and current politics

Kate Parker Adams kate at dnki.net
Fri Nov 5 06:20:29 MST 2004


America's great, yeah, but you don't talk back ya hide your face ...
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Don't want to live in a prison cell
Don't want to live in a smoking room
Independence just won't come to you
In the brief of a diplomat

---This one clearly belongs to Timor.


Say your prayers for the future
Say your prayers for the past
It might be round the corner
It might be all we have
Say your Prayers

---The peace that many of us dream for?


Don't want to live with a compromise
Don't want to live with hypocrisy
Bureaucracy doesn't have to win
Breaks the cage of the beast within

---This one is good for US elections, what do you think?


Say your prayers in the boardroom
Say your prayers on the stairs
It might be catastrophic
It might be too damn bad
Say your prayers

---An Iraqi or a Palestinian child before the next bomb


I got the cure for compassion fatigue
Spend a week with the Timorese
Running scared from the military
You can share you can share your disease

---The last tree are specifically for Timor


Now we don't live with an absent master
We don't live on an island divided
Don't want my kids to grow up in shame
In a country with a different name
Had to throw them out, had to break the chains


I got the cure for compassion fatigue
Spend a week with the Timorese
Running scared from the military
I come to you with a plaintive plea.




Good lyrics if we discuss Timor history.... US Forces, nothing more to add
in that lyrics.

Maybe we should ask Mr. Peter Garrett, but wait, he doesn't believe anymore
in Oils lirycs.

What about Rob? Maybe he will compose a new song soon, waiting to hear from
it.

Cheers!

escrutador



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