The overall theme of child abuse around the world is the biggest part of the song / poem but there's also that none of this would be happening if not for the satanic flow of wealth around the world. When someone can live in incredible luxury with the full knowledge that children die of starvation in the desert, it shows an appalling bankruptcy of conscience and it's commonplace. When schoolgirls are kidnapped and it becomes a media sideshow event, people will be interested for as long as it's spectacular and then they will forget about it as quickly as flight MH-370.
The music for this has been through three incarnations and of course this is Cat Symphony No. 4 but this one needs its own name. I've included the poem again as I have changed some of it, not for content but for wording and a bit more structure. That pushes it over to questions of how each segment of the poem maps to the segments of the music and that will be an experiment for later today.
Two are sleeping just now so music won't be happening for a while yet. I was going to play online yesterday but that wasn't possible. The next scheduled show is on Thursday.
Meanwhile, on a Voodoo kind of theme, he wrote a song about Flight MH-370 and he was genuinely anguished over what had happened ... but the story falls from favor and the song probably fades with it. This is one hell of a damn shame as it was a beautiful piece of music very powerfully expressed. The same hazard exists with anything about the children but only if I take a limited view of the problem. When twenty-thousand kids die every year from poverty, war, hunger, etc, this isn't a theme that will lose relevance any time soon although nothing would make me happier than if it did.
Some of this is in German and that's specifically because of the sound and the clarity. I like how the sounds roll and 'nur in Stille sind wir besiegt' is delicious to me. There is some thought to writing the whole thing in German but I'm not strong enough with the language to do justice to what I want to say. It's ok on a limited basis but not for the whole thing.
People talk of revolution
and we'll descend a thousand years.
The only hope is evolution
but people are buried in their fears.
They can't get breath for screaming,
they feel terror for their lives,
no-one is there to help them
and so they slowly die.
The only problem comes from money;
those who have it want it all.
There's nothing in their souls to stop them
only diamonds hold their thrall.
So many in the world are starving,
and the rich can plainly see,
but they scarcely do a thing to help them,
when it's so easy to set them free.
Children die by thousands,
every day and every way,
and now it's a massive human problem
when Facebook starts to say,
God help us, save the children,
before this gets much worse.
There are now some kidnapped schoolgirls,
send the Army, send a hearse.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
So it goes in today's high drama,
by God, let's save those kids,
but spare me the hysterics,
I've seen the ones you missed.
They find unexploded bombs,
they lose their legs to mines.
The armies left behind so much,
and kids find it all the time.
Wars, whores, fops, and boors,
in their lives only money grows.
Why they need so much for so little
is only theirs to know.
It's not about you, darlin',
you aren't in this game.
You could give everything you have
and it would still come out the same.
It's those in the far towers
who take it all as their own.
They are the real villains
and so many times it's been shown.
What you'll do to close those towers,
is something I'll never know,
but you have run right out of choices
and you must make it so.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
You want it to change through some magic,
as if there's still a chance for Tinkerbell,
so make well that wish by the starlight
else we are surely bound for hell.
War Child International - They work for children every day not just when there's a headline on CNN
The music for this has been through three incarnations and of course this is Cat Symphony No. 4 but this one needs its own name. I've included the poem again as I have changed some of it, not for content but for wording and a bit more structure. That pushes it over to questions of how each segment of the poem maps to the segments of the music and that will be an experiment for later today.
Two are sleeping just now so music won't be happening for a while yet. I was going to play online yesterday but that wasn't possible. The next scheduled show is on Thursday.
Meanwhile, on a Voodoo kind of theme, he wrote a song about Flight MH-370 and he was genuinely anguished over what had happened ... but the story falls from favor and the song probably fades with it. This is one hell of a damn shame as it was a beautiful piece of music very powerfully expressed. The same hazard exists with anything about the children but only if I take a limited view of the problem. When twenty-thousand kids die every year from poverty, war, hunger, etc, this isn't a theme that will lose relevance any time soon although nothing would make me happier than if it did.
Some of this is in German and that's specifically because of the sound and the clarity. I like how the sounds roll and 'nur in Stille sind wir besiegt' is delicious to me. There is some thought to writing the whole thing in German but I'm not strong enough with the language to do justice to what I want to say. It's ok on a limited basis but not for the whole thing.
Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt. (Only in silence are we defeated)
Die Wahrheit ist immer einfach. (The Truth is always simple)
Sie wussten die ganze Zeit. (You have known the whole time)
Frieden ist der einzige Weg. (Peace is the only way)
People talk of revolution
and we'll descend a thousand years.
The only hope is evolution
but people are buried in their fears.
They can't get breath for screaming,
they feel terror for their lives,
no-one is there to help them
and so they slowly die.
The only problem comes from money;
those who have it want it all.
There's nothing in their souls to stop them
only diamonds hold their thrall.
So many in the world are starving,
and the rich can plainly see,
but they scarcely do a thing to help them,
when it's so easy to set them free.
Children die by thousands,
every day and every way,
and now it's a massive human problem
when Facebook starts to say,
God help us, save the children,
before this gets much worse.
There are now some kidnapped schoolgirls,
send the Army, send a hearse.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
So it goes in today's high drama,
by God, let's save those kids,
but spare me the hysterics,
I've seen the ones you missed.
They find unexploded bombs,
they lose their legs to mines.
The armies left behind so much,
and kids find it all the time.
Wars, whores, fops, and boors,
in their lives only money grows.
Why they need so much for so little
is only theirs to know.
It's not about you, darlin',
you aren't in this game.
You could give everything you have
and it would still come out the same.
It's those in the far towers
who take it all as their own.
They are the real villains
and so many times it's been shown.
What you'll do to close those towers,
is something I'll never know,
but you have run right out of choices
and you must make it so.
Children die from hunger,
from poverty,
from sickness
and from killing.
Twenty thousand died this day,
tomorrow it will be worse.
You want it to change through some magic,
as if there's still a chance for Tinkerbell,
so make well that wish by the starlight
else we are surely bound for hell.
Nur in Stille sind wir besiegt. (Only in silence are we defeated)
Die Wahrheit ist immer einfach. (The Truth is always simple)
Sie wussten die ganze Zeit. (You have known the whole time)
Frieden ist der einzige Weg. (Peace is the only way)
War Child International - They work for children every day not just when there's a headline on CNN
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