Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Pacifist's Lament , by - Ani DiFranco. Song from the album Binary, in the genre Музыка мираRelease date: 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? |