Dinesh Moylan

I am swimming across the ocean while people drown on every side
many argue as they flounder; "how deep is it, how wide?"
Every action creating ripples which in turn becomes a wave
I can only learn to swim myself there is no-one I can save

I am balancing on a tightrope across a chasm wide and deep
I will fall if I should stumble as along the wire I creep
I know that I am lost if I look back or I look down
if I pause to catch my breath I will surely drown

On my left a crowd of people fast asleep dreaming their dreams
laughing moaning and screaming lost in their phantom schemes
on my right a lonely mountain where cool space can become an icy breeze
quarantine from a sick world doesn't work if you carry the disease

Gave a jewel to a blind girl, she thought she threw away a stone
sang a song to a deaf man, he said "woe is me I'm all alone"
Some ask what is silence? What does it sound like, how will I know?
Others flee from their own violence crushing everything as they go

I hear the righteous thunder for the life of the unborn child
so the child is free to grow up in poverty, lose all hope, angry and wild
then the righteous throw him in prison, crucify him, throw away the key
just as long as they don't have to question why mothers and children live in misery

No-one dares to ask the questions from the mirror on the wall
whatever will become of me when I'm not the fairest of them all?
who will take care of me when I'm left here all alone?
And how much longer will I be here in this body of flesh and bone?

 

from the album - Beautiful Place