Lyr Add: Seasons of Murder

Subject: Lyr Add: Seasons of Murder
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 08:08 AM

Seasons of murder
Words Lorcan Otway
Tune Traditional, Mary Hamilton
All rights reserved Otway 2003


Where is Simon the Cobbler? And Miriam with the auburn curls
and Miska the Gypsy fiddler, and his two sweet little girls?
For the snow is falling in Auschwitz town on an August night this year
With the ashes of the innocent, who can spare a precious tear

Where are Susan and Kevin, who worked hard and loved their lives,
and hundreds of New York firemen, who left behind children and wives?
For the snow is falling in New York town, on a warm September day
And the tears of many a nation will not wash these ashes away

Tom Hurndall and Brian Avery, why did you face the gun
and Rachel Corrie why did you give you life 'neath the west bank sun?
For its raining on the parched desert soil, its been raining there for years
Watering the olive trees, with innocent blood and our tears

What brought the thunder and fire, to this Iraqi market place?
And so many women and children, with horror etched on their face.
The sun burns down in Baghdad town, in the spring time of the year,
While America rains cluster bombs, to water the desert with fear.

Well, here we are again. Isreali soldiers shot two more peace activists from Rachel Corries group. Tom Hurdall, English, is shot in the head and is reported brain dead, and Brian Avery, an American has been shot in the face. What more can be said?
Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Seasons of Murder
From: Pied Piper
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 08:26 AM

In the Bible it says "You reap what you sow", but sadly the opposite is true, people sow what they reap; the evil done to them they do to others.
For every Martin Luther King there are 1000 Michael Xs.
Shiting on people doesn't tern them into saints, and so it goes on and on.
I don't have any solutions, but if we accept this fact about human nature maybe we can look for more realistic solutions to the many problems of abuse around the world
Salaam
Shalom
PP

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Seasons of Murder
From: InOBU
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 08:32 AM

My dear Pied Piper:
Sometimes it seems that way, but don't forget, most of human history is prehistory. Most of the phiscal evidence is that humans form most of their prehistory were incorporative and most important, where driven by empathy. So, now that modern society creates alienation, and the alienated can kill without tears, the good which is our true nature outs, in people like Rachel. So, lets water and nurture that good in us, rather than accept that the alienated murderer is us, and we have to figure a statigy that uses that.
Practice peace
Larry