April 15, 2013

Useless Tears and Silent Prayers – Lyrics

By tashhill

I sit here starin’ blankly at the TV

Wonderin’ what in the world is wrong with me

How can I pretend to really care?

When all I do is look on and stare

I pray for peace, I hope for love

I pray for that olive and the snow white dove

How long can this anguish last

How long do the starving have to fast

Before we stop sitting and watching

When do we start moving?

Towards the pain of others and not away

When will peace become the only way?

We cry all these useless tears

And pray all these silent prayers

All those pain filled faces

All those war ravaged places

What’s the point of all these useless tears?

If they don’t alleviate anyone’s fears?

How long can I pretend to really care?

When I wouldn’t ever dare

To suit an action to a word

Cept’ to sit here and pray to the lord

Looking through glass in the door

Refusing to see the pain anymore

Stop with the self-riotous anger

While there are others in danger

Don’t sit there talkin’ ‘bout the law

While there are others off at war

Stop slinging out the hate

When others can’t control their fate

We cry all these useless tears

And pray all these silent prayers

All those pain filled faces

All those war ravaged places

What’s the point of all these useless tears?

If they don’t alleviate anyone’s fears?

So wipe away all those useless tears

Share with the world those silent prayers

Sing with the people, join as one

So we can face the fear and know we’ve won

So all of the love and all of the life

Can free us of all this strife

Let’s face that dark and lonely night

Fill it up with all our light

Let’s look that pain in the face

And blast it into outta space

Let’s rid the world of all this pain

Cover the land with the cleansing rain

We pray for peace, we hope for love

We pray for that olive and the snow white dove

All those joy filled faces

All those peaceful places

The point of all these joyful tears

Living so many blissful years

We pray for peace, we hope for love

We pray for that olive and the snow white dove

About tashhill

I am a rather eclectic (that's the nice way of saying completely and utterly insane) eighteen year old from Australia and I love everything about . . . well everything . Especially Women. Yeah, especially them. *Skeevey look* Sense is something I have little of and I am rather proud of my ability to memorise lyrics - a skill which is totally unappreciated BTW - and of my brains' capacity to compile rather astounding levels of useless information that no one cares to know. I'm oftentimes very long winded and opinionated about anything that catches my fancy (feel free to tell me to shut my trap.) Yeah, I'm done now. View all posts by tashhill
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