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Six Thousand Years
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Songwriter specializing in modern rock, country, easy listening and pop music.
I'm a songwriter with a wide variety of influences. I am currently seeking a publisher for one or more of my songs. Though I focus on commercially viable Country/Rock and Adult Contemporary, my wide range of infuences ensures that on any given CD of my work, there's something for all tastes in music.
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Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #2,030
Peak in subgenre #163
Author
Capers Simmons
Rights
2003
Uploaded
November 04, 2003
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MP3 4.4 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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“Six Thousand Years” Capers Simmons VERSE I Viktor walks the streets of Sarajevo Past the bombed-out church where he once took a Mass But the wafers and the wine both tasted bitter This means body, blood and what has come to pass PRECHORUS I The fighting’s over, but it goes on in the streets of Viktor’s mind For the hate’s outlived the war and the peace For the future is fostered in the cradle of the mind And the enmity survives after the enemies have died CHORUS “You’re black.” “We’re white.” “You’re wrong.” “We’re right.” Everyone knows how the story goes It has been the same here for the past five hundred years The fighters are tired and it shows Everything breaks in this powder keg, families lost to the fighting But it’s been the same here for the past five hundred years And it shows no signs of changing VERSE II Isaak walks the sidewalks of Jerusalem Past the synagogue the mosque and the church The hypocrisy is almost too ironic They all believe in the same God, but they all ignore his words PRECHORUS II The fighting’s never over as long as one side crosses lines But if the other doesn’t draw them then he’ll die For the future is festering in the cesspool of the mind And the enmity survives after all other things have died CHORUS II “You’re rich.” “We’re poor.” “It’s not peace.” “It’s war!” That’s all they can agree on But it’s been the same here for the past fifty years Neither’s willing to leave it alone It’s not black, it’s not white; it’s not bombs, suicides It’s just too many lives to be wasting But it has been the same here for the past fifty years And it shows no signs of changing CHORUS III It’s no good, it’s all bad, but it’s real, it’s so sad But it’s true and it goes without saying “You’re black.” “We’re white.” “You’re wrong.” “We are right.” The shouting precedes all the slaying Everyone cries as they watch the men die but nobody tries for an ending ‘Cause it’s been the same here for six thousand years And it shows no signs of changing.
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