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THERE'S A VOICE by The Hesh (c) The Hesh Inc./BMI www.thehesh.net
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There's a voice calling out in the air and on the streets There's diaries, struggles and final calls And me I'm stone tired but I can't fall asleep Trying to make sense of it all There's a prophet singing about a deafening silence He begs and pleads when are you gonna come down But I just wanna roll over and shut out the noise and violence Even though I've always got one ear to the ground
Oh Lord protect me and mine tonight Wherever they are make sure they reach the morning light Oh Lord send me happy dreams tonight Don't let the vision be obscured from sight.
There's a moon shining down and a neighborhood's at peace And for now all seems still and quiet But the bills are running out and time's running out on the lease And I wonder how long before the next riot All we need is a hair trigger to set balloon tempers off For the storm to rise up in a fury The masses unschooled act out passions unthought Pronounce sentence with no court judge or jury
Oh Lord protect this city tonight The whole country the whole world, let them all bathe in light Oh Lord protect all those I love tonight And all those who know how to love, by them do right.
I reach out in the darkness to touch my lover's skin Beneath my fingertips I can feel her stirring What a sense of contentment she's probably in Like a cat in a human lap purring Oh how I wish I could feel some of that contentment myself And not conjure up all these worst case scenes Instead of tossing and turning and shaking and burning And wrestling with my internal screams
Oh Lord protect me from myself tonight And from my own imagination -- I don't have the strength to fight Oh Lord there's nothing I can do about it tonight So let my soul in exile rest -- I've expended all my might.
Oh Lord protect this city tonight The whole country the whole world, let them all bathe in light Oh Lord protect all those I love tonight And all those who know how to love, by them do right.
[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-02-2002).]
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