Songs of Hope and Sorrow
Another Day
Do you seek a sun
to brighten a new day?
Do you fear the shadows
that lie along the way?
Do you sit in darkness
afraid to carry on?
Do you think the sunlight
will never come along?
Listen to your heartbeat
it whispers all around
Can you hear it speaking?
It’s such a subtle sound
Telling of the things
you thought were lost, now found
Saying, “You’re not broken!
you’ve simply been unbound”
Oh-h-h
Secret scars of which we never speak
And the lies we tell ourselves to keep
In a world too often found without conscience
We fly
We cry
Another day
Are you holding on
so desp’rate to remain?
Are you moving on
despite the growing pain?
Are you full of sorrow
no other could describe?
Are you all alone
no matter how you try?
There’s another song
it’s waiting deep inside
And it won’t be broken
no matter how they try
There’s a power in it
that can’t be hid by lies
Beating out the rhythm
that the whole world can’t hide
Oh-h-h
Secret scars that never give us peace
And the lies we struggle to release
In a world that’s saying we are not enough
We fly
We’ll cry
Another day
In one moment
blinks a future
one pill
one vial
one more suture
Now we’ve lived
and have our answer
rise up
rise higher
fight this cancer
Secret scars will never rule our lives
And these lies aren’t who we are inside
In this world that never seemed to understand
We’ll fly
Don’t cry
Let the song from deep inside resound
Let it tell of all the strength we’ve found
Tell the world that it can’t silence this anthem
we cry
We fly
Another day
Zel’nair
I’m walking down this crumbling road
Again
The world keeps changing
Yet it’s all the same
The fading daylight cannot hide
These scars
One more ‘tomorrow’
Fades to ‘yesterday’
But still I’m marching on
There is a light in the distance
It leads me on, it calls my name
And guides me on my way
And while I long for tomorrow
I want to leave this life, give up this path
And throw it all away
Today
What point in fighting
When you’re all alone?
Each life’s a moment
Then they fade to grey
You’d think by now I’d have
A heart of stone
Yet each new meeting
Makes me long to stay
But still you call me on
There is a wind blowing onwards
It knows my past, it knows my fate
Yet guides me anyway
And when I long, full of sorrow, for home
You lift me up, and push me on
And call me by my name:
Zel’nair
Outcast
You’re standing beyond the boundary
Looking in
And you’re clinging desperately to something you’ve
Never been
There must be something here
You can call your own
But you’re always standing on the outside
All alone
The world comes crashing down
At the break of day
And you’ve tried so hard to tell yourself
That you’ll be okay
Memories slip through your grasp
As you fade from time
But you can’t forget the one thing you could
Never find
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