Great Band, Great song!

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  betweenworlds

  Just got these two albums today by this great band from Washington state called Gaia Consort. I love the words to this one song of theirs called "Cry Freedom"

  http://www.gaiaconsort.com

  Cry Freedom
  
  From the bottom of the heap
  Shouts an angry voice that says No, I will not remain asleep
  I have seen it with my eyes
  Seen that all religion lives by a steady trade in lies
  
  They try to hold us back with reins of holy smoke
  But I am here to say we will not bear the yoke
  
  Once the fact is clearly seen
  There is no turning back for fairytales or bloody dreams
  If we dare not speak our minds
  The Inquisition has a test for each of us in time
  
  Do you trust a creed that claims to set you free
  By spending half a lifetime begging on your knees?
  
  Cry freedom! We have nothing but this day...
  Cry Freedom We have nothing but our chains to lose!
  
  In a single cup of earth
  Sings the mystery of the all expanding universe
  Trust that brain behind your eyes
  To carve a space for us within the universal mind
  
  And if it's up to us to bring some balance back
  Let it not be said it's courage that we lack
  
  Cry freedom! We have nothing but this day...
  Cry Freedom We have nothing but our chains to lose!
  
  Christopher Bingham October 30, 2000
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  asortafairytale

  By the same title, also one of my favorite Dave Matthews Band songs:
  (also, a great movie about apartheid in south africa)
  
  Dave Matthews Band
  Title: Cry Freedom
  Album: Crash
  
  How can I turn away
  Brother/Sister go dancing
  Through my head
  Human as to human
  The future is no place
  To place your better days
  
  Cry freedom cry
  From a crowd 10,000 wide
  Hope laid upon hope
  That this crowd will not subside
  Let this flag burn to dust
  And a new a fair design be raised
  While we wait head in hands
  Hands in prayer
  And fall into a dreamless sleep again
  And we wave our hands
  
  Hands and feet are all alike
  But gold between divide us
  Hands and feet are all alike
  But fear between divide us
  All slip away
  
  There was a window and by it stood
  A mirror in which
  He could see himself
  He thought of something
  Something he had never had but hoped would come along
  Cry freedom, cry
  From deep inside
  Where we are all confined
  While we wave hands in fire
  Wave our hands
  
  Hands and feet are all alike
  But gold between divide us
  Hands and feet are all alike
  But fear between divide us,
  Slip away
  In this room stood a little child
  And in this room this little child
  She would remain
  Until someone might decide
  To dance this little child
  Across this hall
  Into a cold, dark, space
  Where she might never trace her way across this crooked mile
  Across this crooked page
  Cry freedom, cry
  From deep inside where
  We are all confined
  Till we wave our hands
  
  How can I turn away
  Brother/Sister go dancing
  Through my head
  Human as to human
  The future is no place
  To place your better days
  
  Hands and feet are all alike
  But gold between divide us
  Hands and feet are all alike
  But fear between divide us
  Hands and feet are all alike
  Hear what I say
  Hear what I say
  Oh, so be it
  
  How can I turn away
  Brother/Sister go dancing
  Through my head
  Human as to human
  The future is no place
  To place your better days
  
  
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  betweenworlds

  Yeah that is a great song :) That's one of my husbands favorite bands as well!

  Thanks for sharing the lyrics

  Betweenworlds