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My Heart Goes Out To You (Ward/Loveridge)
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Love song to a terrorist. Lyrics composed by Liz Ward. Music by Lorelei Loveridge.
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World traveller, activist, songwriter...friend. http://www.loreleiloveridge.com
This is Lorelei Loveridge's 'demo' page. It is dedicated to friend and co-writer Elizabeth Ward who passed away on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in the morning, her loved ones with her, her daughter holding her hand, and strangers from across the globe holding them all in a circular embrace of love and compassion. Every effort will be made, as promised to Liz before she passed on, to record her music and share it with the world. Peace be upon her and upon us all. LL. * * * Lorelei Loveridge is a published songwriter, performer, world-traveller, teacher, activist, arts manager, coach, consultant, writer, photographer, director of theatre, marketer, and jill-of-all-trades in the wonderful world of independent music making. She originally hails from Edmonton, Canada and is now based in Manchester, UK after 11 years in Saudi Arabia. In September 2010, Loveridge will move to Doha, Qatar - a tiny country bordering against Saudi Arabia and south of Iran across the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Orderly Bazaar Records & Publishing is an artist-owned boutique label and multi-media publisher specialized in 'roots, rock, ethnic, jazz, fusion and other travel-related shenanigans', dedicated to building community wherever and by whatever means possible, on a humble mission to change the nature of things in the developing world. 'Bakhoor', a beautiful 15-song, 4-year album project recorded in India, Canada and Saudi Arabia, was released in the UK in 2008 and Canada in 2009. It is available at CDBaby.com and from iTunes and other fine retailers in the UK and Canada.
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Charts
Peak #24
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
Lorelei Loveridge
Rights
2006, Lorelei Loveridge, SOCAN
Uploaded
August 02, 2006
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MP3 3.8 MB 128 kbps 4:11
Story behind the song
Two online songwriters with the capacity to see this issue in ways others may not. I rarely co-write anything, but this lyric begged for a response, and Liz invited me to have a go at it. One caveat: There is an acknowledged dilemma here with the use of the word 'nation'. It is meant in the spirit of a self-defined 'nation of Islam', NOT as a reference to a specific country. I realize, as a performer, that it is hard to show 'quotes' around a word when singing it. I'd have to preface this song's performance with a brief reminder that this is to those who wage terror/war in the name of Islam, though true Muslims will denounce their suicidal actions; for suicide is forbidden in Islam, period.
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MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU Words - Liz Ward Music - Lorelei Loveridge I don't believe or disbelieve The stories of your Scriptures Or each sway of Your Prophet's pen That paints another picture And I will never understand The ethos of your 'nation' Loving death more than life Or your defiance of creation My heart goes out to you I'll love you just the same And no one told me to My spirit rides my mortal breath I know not of God or Death And if you do My heart goes out to you I will not know the rapture The power or the glory Of the detonation or the flash That becomes a man's life story And I'll never know the child Who shared the depth of your conviction But I'll know the sorrow of this Earth Born of your God-addiction Is this Nirvana? Where does your love flow? Is there a place so high All Heaven lies below? Won't you get there soon enough? Will there be room for the rest of us? It must be nice to know so much And if you do My heart goes out to you My heart goes out to you I'll love you though you're not like me No one can tell me not to My Spirit rides my mortal breath I know not of God or Death And if you do My heart goes out to you My heart goes out to you
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