Tag: Damien Rice

The Blower’s Daughter…

I have wondered often why people say “All good things come to an end”……..do good things really come to an end?

I guess it is a rhetorical question…..I should know…..

Bound
The Pupil in denial....

The Blower’s Daughter ~ Damien Rice

“And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time”

48 Hours later…..

I have 2 weeks worth of memories ……which now seem surreal…..

48 Hours later…..

I wake up to what seems like a cold, empty and incomplete existence…

48 Hours later……

I know I have to pick up once again and walk on until…..”the next time”

“And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky”

Maybe in days to come I will sit down …..and find each of these precious moments to put down……

or Maybe I will do what I do best……once again lock them away and throw away the keys cause it hurts too much to remember…….

Maybe…..

“And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We’ll both forget the breeze
Most of the time”

But the irony is I set out to find answers……..only to be left with questions that I dare not ask myself……

Naively……I assumed…that the answers I seek…….will mysteriously unravel themselves……

Looking back …..in a real long time…..I wonder……. “What if”

“And so it is
The colder water
The blower’s daughter
The pupil in denial”

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time

Silent Song….

Unplayed Piano~ Damien Rice

Often by a Window

Rice wrote this song for Aung San Suu Kyi the Nobel laureate. The Burmese opposition leader….who has been under house arrest since 1989……….under the Junta regime….

“Come and see me
Sing me to sleep
Come and free me
Or hold me if I need to weep”

Freedom…….Freedom of speech…… Human Rights….

What was her crime?

“Why i’m locked up inside
Just cause they wanna hide me
The moon goes bright
The darker they make my night”

Why was her voice silenced? why is she locked away in her home?

We talk about world peace…….we talk about climate change….we talk about reaching the moon and beyond…..

And yet we fail to secure the freedom of this 64 year old woman?

“Maybe they could release me
Let the people decide
I’ve got nothing to hide
I’ve done nothing wrong

So why’ve I been here so long?”

She said in one of her speeches “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”~ Freedom From Fear

and the price she paid was her freedom……. 14 years of confinement…….

Where are the world leaders today?

Where are the international bodies today? Where is the much celebrated UN?

What was her crime?

Her crime was that she had a dream……..a dream for a better world……a better world for her people…..

“Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody loved goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Could somebody bring her home”

All she had was a dream…..a dream to break free……a dream to free her country from misery……

Will anyone ever justify the  lost 14 years of  her life?

Will she ever walk free?

“Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Years pass by
In the changing of the moon”

Human race is a curse…….curse that has been cast on the rest of the world…….if not for the humans,  the world would still be beautiful place…

**Peace**