Shad
I'll Never Understand
(Bernadette)The killersYou've invaded my nightsSinging your haunting lullabyDrowning other voicesChokingSuffocatingNumbingSending me to sleepYou've awakened me many morningsLike an unexpected alarmShattering my dreamsConfusingTerrorizingTraumatizingI've talked to you in tears and angerSpat on you in rageWhispered to you in sorrowTied you in chainsThrown you in jailI've pulled you outAsked you many questionsKnowing there would be no answers...Letras de canciones(Shad)I'll never understand how flesh being torn apart feelsOr how after all this suffering a heart healsOn the rich green fields where they killed old and youngCold and numb, under the light of a golden sunIt still stuns, tell me what possesses manTo, in anger, raise his hand?I'll never understand...(Bernadette)I tied you in chainsAgain and again, round and roundUntil the chains, in my dizzinessbound me to youyou and I becoming one!Bound by the chains of hateI knew then the choices to make...(Shad)I'll never understand how it feltwhen my mom lost her dadher sister and the only brother that she ever hadand I'll never know what's more sadthe fact they could've been sparedor the fact that to this day nobody caresfor the innocentvictims of a full-fledged holocaustbecause folks only holler if the costof dollars lost is highso regardless of the number of liveswhen poor blacks diethey always turn a blind eyeand I'll never understand why...(Bernadette)I untied the chainsLetting goOf those who converged on my dadbeatingpoundingleaving him deadI untied the chainsLetting goOf those who propelled the grenadeScattering my brother's brainsI untied the chainsLetting goOf those who knifed my sister's throatLeaving her begging for a better deathI untied the chainsPainfullyPurposefullyKnowing the one who said to do itSeventy times sevenTotally understands the depth of my pain...(Shad)I'll never understand how people can go on and liveThe miracle of finding the strength to forgiveTo resurrect peace, to close up wounds so deepthey pierce souls beneath heart beatsTo be a willful slave to a loving God's commandsThe key to a freedom that I'll never understand.
From Letras Mania