If This Is a Man
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โฑ๏ธ 2:38 duration
๐ ID: 12260904
๐ Lyrics
You who live safe
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this came about:
I commend these words to you.
Carve them in your hearts
At home, in the street,
Going to bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children,
Or may your house fall apart,
May illness impede you,
May your children turn their faces from you.
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this came about:
I commend these words to you.
Carve them in your hearts
At home, in the street,
Going to bed, rising;
Repeat them to your children,
Or may your house fall apart,
May illness impede you,
May your children turn their faces from you.
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:12.65] You who live safe
[00:15.31] In your warm houses,
[00:18.63] You who find, returning in the evening,
[00:24.41] Hot food and friendly faces:
[00:27.77] Consider if this is a man
[00:31.09] Who works in the mud
[00:38.20] Who does not know peace
[00:44.09] Who fights for a scrap of bread
[00:49.92] Who dies because of a yes or a no.
[00:56.23] Consider if this is a woman,
[00:58.88] Without hair and without name
[01:01.65] With no more strength to remember,
[01:04.64] Her eyes empty and her womb cold
[01:07.90] Like a frog in winter.
[01:10.69] Meditate that this came about:
[01:20.02] I commend these words to you.
[01:23.08] Carve them in your hearts
[01:25.25] At home, in the street,
[01:28.02] Going to bed, rising;
[01:31.41] Repeat them to your children,
[01:34.12] Or may your house fall apart,
[01:37.49] May illness impede you,
[01:44.77] May your children turn their faces from you.
[02:18.05]
[00:15.31] In your warm houses,
[00:18.63] You who find, returning in the evening,
[00:24.41] Hot food and friendly faces:
[00:27.77] Consider if this is a man
[00:31.09] Who works in the mud
[00:38.20] Who does not know peace
[00:44.09] Who fights for a scrap of bread
[00:49.92] Who dies because of a yes or a no.
[00:56.23] Consider if this is a woman,
[00:58.88] Without hair and without name
[01:01.65] With no more strength to remember,
[01:04.64] Her eyes empty and her womb cold
[01:07.90] Like a frog in winter.
[01:10.69] Meditate that this came about:
[01:20.02] I commend these words to you.
[01:23.08] Carve them in your hearts
[01:25.25] At home, in the street,
[01:28.02] Going to bed, rising;
[01:31.41] Repeat them to your children,
[01:34.12] Or may your house fall apart,
[01:37.49] May illness impede you,
[01:44.77] May your children turn their faces from you.
[02:18.05]