On our album From Dreams Or Angels we have a song called Holy Way, which tells the story of a religious war from the eyes of a child living in a war destroyed city. I wrote this years ago, and I can't remember exactly which war inspired it.
Currently the world is going through the same thing...and when you think about it, when is the world NOT going through this...somewhere? I'd love to blame it on religion. I'd love to blame it on government. I'd love to blame it on greed and economics, but in fact the current war is simply a result of mixing all these things the way people always do. If you could remove either economics, religion, or politics from this war, the war would stop. This war is a reasult of all three.
From the standpoint of a child, NONE of these things matters. Nothing important to a child is really effected by any of these, and this makes it grossly ironic that they should suffer so much from it.
Here are some of the lyrics
Deaths hue falling on the faces of the streets lost children as the mortar fire broken in
Nights cold, slipping through the cracks breaking through the walls of crumbling plaster.
Hunger gnaws, I can feel its claws but the pain of a bullet would burn much hotter in the spot light, mounted on the cannon of the tank the prowls.
Currently I have a freind in Iraq. I've written to him about the possability of him shooting footage for a video for this song. If that works out, I think I'll do a re-mix, and release - maybe even rework the lyrics a bit. Its as timly now as its ever been, and since war seems to be a human constant, it always will be.
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