Let Us PLAY!
Another day.
Set the pieces out again
To show the world
How nicely we can play.
We know the dice are loaded
Still we throw, there’s only
One or zero
Yes or no.
We know the rules
Learned them all by heart.
But first we need to cut
To see which one will start.
You cut me
I cut you.
Some game.
I don’t think
I want to play
Anymore.
Set the pieces out again
To show the world
How nicely we can play.
We know the dice are loaded
Still we throw, there’s only
One or zero
Yes or no.
We know the rules
Learned them all by heart.
But first we need to cut
To see which one will start.
You cut me
I cut you.
Some game.
I don’t think
I want to play
Anymore.
(written by Alan Gilbert - Poet and Friend)
Let us Play!
Let us just put
our knives away.
All the "cuts" we have left on one another's skin,
have healed my dear,
now let us sing.
We were born to embrace,
not accept it
We were given nothing more,
and so we kept it
As the colors of our boots keep fading
We live a life that we hate without saying
Who would listen to the cries of a poor man
We've never done nothing
How could we be something
Every heart has an hour of existence
Every breath brings a chance for redemption
If somehow we could wake up
Let us love
Like we were children
Make us feel
Like we're still living
In a world
I know that's burning to the ground
Give us time
To beat the system
Make us find
What we've been missing
In a world
I know that's
burning to the ground
In the crowd of the dead
and disappointed
We're ashamed,
giving up on what we wanted
Take a chance on a long shot this time
Aren't we all just at least worth another try
I'm a king in the land of abuses
Undermined by the promise of excuses
Who's to win if we know that it's not fair
Who would fight when it seems that no one cares
If somehow we could wake up
Let us love
Like we were children
Make us feel
Like we're still living
In a world I know that's burning to the ground
Give us time
To beat the system
Make us find
What we've been missing
In a world I know that's burning to the ground
It's hard to stay here
but where do we go
I know we can't feel it anymore
It's true that time is wearing us down
We fall further and further away
Waiting for always to change
Let us love
Like we were children
Make us feel
Like we're still living
In a world I know that's burning to the ground
Leave your hurting on the road
behind you
Let the wind go with you 'til the morning comes
Yeah, your sorrow,
no it can't save you
It won't answer for what you've done
