(If I held the ) Lightning - SSG4 Week 46
Submission for guitarnoise.com's Sunday Songwriters Group, year 4, week 46. The theme: 'Inventions'
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Story behind the song
I hate to overexplain my lyrics, but I think this one needs a bit of a disclaimer. The assignment is was supposed to be about an invention that let me control the weather, but I quickly realised that the invention wasn't really what this song was about, it was about what I'd do if I could control the weather ( ie. if I were God ). My intent isn't promoting terrorism, but in light of the rest of the song about injustice to the poor, an angry response seemed the only appropriate response. I realised after writing this that many of the countries have been attacked or nearly attacked by some who would use similar language as that found in my final verse, and I'm sorry if you find it inappropriate; I did not intend the connection.
Lyrics
If I held the rains
I'd wash your days of drought and famine out to
Sea, sea, out to sea
Hunger washed into the sea
Sea, sea, out to sea
Green fields bloom from sea to sea
If I held the winds
I'd breath life back into the lungs of orphans'
Mothers, mothers
Breath in orphans' mothers
Mothers, mothers
Tears dried by orphans' mothers
Foreign gold
Flows into
The hands that break your back
Foriegn arms
And finger pointing
Let you kill
Each other so much
Faster, faster
Kill each other faster
If I held the lightning
I would burn the cities of the rich to
Dust, dust, down to dust
Leave them lying in the dust
Dust, dust, down to dust
Choking on a feast of dust
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