Songs We Sing

from Mantennae by David P. Smith

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lyrics

If the songs that we sing
all blow away in the wind
if our tongues lie on our teeth
heaving like great dying beasts

Drawing their last breath
while the wind smells like Death
The wind that blows from our lungs
the wind from the songs we have sung
the songs we have sung

If the songs that we sing
all blow away in the wind
If our tongues lie on our teeth
silent
like great dying beasts

Then we’ll hobble through the streets
on stumps not feet
and our poor sad ears
will no longer hear
And our eyeballs will hang
on muscular stands
from empty sockets
dangling like lockets

The blood and the bombs
must not defeat
The poems and the songs
must not defeat
Nor shatter our hearts
must not defeat
Our battered hearts

You see
Men drunk with power
find the vomit is sour
on the morning of their reckoning
when Death’s icy finger is beckoning

And so we must sing
We must let our voices ring
In this darkest hour
We will find the power

The blood and the bombs
must not defeat
The poems and the songs
must not defeat
Nor shatter our hearts
must not defeat
Our battered hearts
must not defeat

And so we must sing
must not defeat
We must let our voices ring
must not defeat
In this darkest hour
must not defeat
We will find the power
We will find the power
We will find the power

credits

from Mantennae, released September 3, 2009
David P. Smith - vox, piano
Scott Henderson - guitar
Mike Irwin - bass
Marek Tyler - drums
Choir - Megan Boddy, Rachelle Reath, B.A. Lampman, Stefan Bozenich, Tolan McNeil, Scott Henderson, Scott Bennett

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David P. Smith Victoria, British Columbia

David P. Smith is a songwriter accordionist and multidisciplinary artist who in the past 18 years has released six full length recordings, numerous ep’s, and led a variety of musical projects that have consistently defied convenient genre classifications. ... more