I love music but I am far from what you Call musically inclined. I couldn’t read a note of music even if it were played on Rosetta Stone. I always pounded my own drum to my own off beat and even in the shower my singing voice is atrocious. I couldn’t carry a tune in a wheel barrel. But be that as it may from time to time an interlude of sounds takes up space in my brain and pleads me to give it words. I’m far from a songwriter, but not being something has never stopped me from deluding myself so I wrote the words.
Dispossessed
Four course dinner
A movie a dance
While little children waste away
Hoping for a chance
To earn a piece of bread
Wash the pains away
Praying for some silence
When the bombs begin to play
Smart car- cell phone -flatscreen scene
Blindfolded luxuries
To watch a movie and not see
The homeless refugees
We’ll never change the world if all we do is justify
We’ll never change ourselves if we believe we’re satisfied
Don’t hide behind complacency of nothing can be done
Don’t shake your head but shake your fist until the peace has won
Bomber jets fly overhead
Then circle to come back
And drop destruction on the land
A civilian home attack
Family lives being shattered
Don’t even know if the children live
Chemicals fill in the cracks of life
Somethings got to give
Get those rockets in the air
Limbless children blood and gore
Close our eyes so we cant see
Families dispossessed by war
We’ll never change the world if all we do is justify
We’ll never change ourselves if we believe we’re satisfied
Don’t hide behind complacency of nothing more can be done
Don’t shake your head but shake your fist cause war is never won
Eighty year old in Ukraine
Lost her house today
Lived in it her whole damn life
Until a war blew it away
With a fifty year old crippled son
Alone in the forest hear them cry
Hold each other tight and pray
That sometime soon they’ll die
But I gotta go to yoga class
And I gotta buy some wine
Then turn on my favorite TV show
O I can try to justify
Don’t glorify or justify
Just open your heart and unify
Tome to give real peace a try
Yet still the war machines roll on
Fuck political camp-pains
Use the donations for starvation
Because if we continue on medication
Our world will spin in indignation
And we will continue to build destruction
And we will continue to create deconstrution
Because murder can be a tax deduction
Fuck it, I’m done with my rap Y’all
Peace out, right on
Live and love in peace
Terrapin - The Journey 