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rainchild
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I wrote Heavy Heart after a Mission Trip to Ecuador working with street kids. We saw God at work but it was very challenging - we stayed in a hostel in Santo Domingo De Los Colorados. It was very noisy and gave me the idea for the poem - I ended up writing a song around the words:
HEAVY HEART
Noise fills the air, invading your ears
A cover up to the silence of your tears
A lonely heart lost inside
Another cog in the system!
Noise fills the air, keep your mind in jail,
Shouting for attention, distractions doomed to fail,
But when you walk in their shoes, there's nothing to hide
Another cog in the system
And I wonder who is really free,
Is it them or is it me?
Could I ever love with eyes so bright
And see the stars on the darkest night
Could I touch the wind and feel the rain,
And love my brother through the pain,
Will I take my heavy heart home again?
Noise fills the air invading your space,
Systems of oppression keeping you in your place,
When will we learn to love one another?
We have so much to discover
We trade prisons of poverty
for prisons of wealth
Play games of monopoly
with a nation's health
A child in suburbia
could be a child on the street,
One governed by possessions,
one with no shoes on their feet
For one time has no meaning,
for the other it's nine to five,
One lives for achievement,
the other achieves by staying alive!
And I wonder who is really free,
Is it them or is it me?
Could I ever love with eyes so bright
And see the stars on the darkest night
Could I touch the wind and feel the rain,
And love my brother through the pain,
Will I take my heavy heart home again?
HEAVY HEART
Noise fills the air, invading your ears
A cover up to the silence of your tears
A lonely heart lost inside
Another cog in the system!
Noise fills the air, keep your mind in jail,
Shouting for attention, distractions doomed to fail,
But when you walk in their shoes, there's nothing to hide
Another cog in the system
And I wonder who is really free,
Is it them or is it me?
Could I ever love with eyes so bright
And see the stars on the darkest night
Could I touch the wind and feel the rain,
And love my brother through the pain,
Will I take my heavy heart home again?
Noise fills the air invading your space,
Systems of oppression keeping you in your place,
When will we learn to love one another?
We have so much to discover
We trade prisons of poverty
for prisons of wealth
Play games of monopoly
with a nation's health
A child in suburbia
could be a child on the street,
One governed by possessions,
one with no shoes on their feet
For one time has no meaning,
for the other it's nine to five,
One lives for achievement,
the other achieves by staying alive!
And I wonder who is really free,
Is it them or is it me?
Could I ever love with eyes so bright
And see the stars on the darkest night
Could I touch the wind and feel the rain,
And love my brother through the pain,
Will I take my heavy heart home again?