Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Pacifist's Lament, artist - Ani DiFranco. Album song Binary, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 08.06.2017
Record label: Righteous Babe
Song language: English
Pacifist's Lament |
There’s many ways to say you’re sorry |
Home from work, buy some flowers |
Wash, dry, put the dishes away |
There’s a gentle way |
For a hand to touch a hand |
For a cup of tea to be delivered to a nightstand |
For a light to be left on, to light someone’s way |
But there is nothing harder than to stop… |
…in the middle of a battle and say you’re sorry |
But we ask it of our children to just stop… |
…in the middle of a battle and say you’re sorry |
Which one of us is ready to just stop? |
There’s many ways, to see my fears |
Don’t it seem hindsight is always the clearest? |
When the fighters and the flighters have gone back to their primeval gaze |
You can try to undo what conditioning created |
You can go to India and sit cross legged |
You can walk to the ocean and drown yourself in the waves |
But there is nothing harder than to stop… |
…in the middle of a battle and say you’re sorry |
But we ask it of our children to just stop… |
…in the middle of a battle and say you’re sorry |
Which one of us is ready to just stop? |
If I had a school, I would teach Gandhi |
And Dr King, and Aung San Suu Kyi |
I’d teach techniques of non-violence as part of the core |
'cause any kid can add two and two |
If you show him a path to the truth |
Monkey see, monkey do. |
That is the score |
But there is nothing harder than to stop… |
…in the middle of a battle and say you’re sorry |
But we ask it of our children to just stop… |
…in the middle of a battle and say you’re sorry |
Which one of us is ready to just stop? |