©℗ Erin Wolf 2023
Week 42 - Song A Week
featuring Mando the Mandolin

Content warning: Lyrics refer to current events in the Middle East, which some listeners may find upsetting. 

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once again our eyes
glued to our screens
as we watch horror unfold

never forget we cry
while we watch these fires fly
and twilight ends the day

how easily we forget
that this news
really, it ain't new

ain't no victors
in the afterglow
only a pain that grows

oh woah oh
oh woah oh
oh woah oh
oh woah oh

mothers and children
the sick and the dying
buried 'neath the rubble in the streets

these shallow graves
don't care who's laying there
bare and free for all to see

time's running out
the clock ticks on
before the final death knell rings

who will tell the stories
of the broken and the slain
so we don't do this shit again

oh woah oh
oh woah oh
oh woah oh
oh woah oh
oh woah oh
oh woah oh

in the small hours of the night...

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