| World
Without War
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• Upbeat folk revival,
just in time for the new push for world peace.
• Guitar
and Lead Vocals by Mokai, Background Vocals by Heather Davison
(Hanes Family, Loretta
Lynch)
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The guitar
is like a reservoir where I can always go for strength. There's
just something hopeful about a G chord. I got myself out of
a major depression writing this song.
One of my stronger childhood memories
of the anti-war movement was the music: the pulsing strummed
guitars, the passionate voices raised in harmony–the whole
"Up With People" togetherness of it all.
It's all here in this song.
Lyrics
Raise your voice against the silence,
If only to hear your own cry;
Don’t support the violence
That perpetuates a lie.
Paint your colors on the darkness,
No matter what the risk;
Light a candle in the tempest
To show you exist.
Because if you’d only sing your
song
Louder than before,
We can make a world without war.
You can’t count the dead;
You can’t count the tears
Or all the blood that’s been shed
Throughout the years;
You can’t justify the carnage,
Can’t justify the pain;
In every conflict through the ages
They all have died in vain.
But if you’d only sing your song
Louder than be fore,
We can make a world without war.
Live your fullest in this moment,
As you plant your seeds;
Don’t be scared by the tyrants
Who want to control your needs.
Help somebody with their burden,
Let them share your load,
Because we are all on one journey,
we are all on one road.
So if you’d only sing your
song
Louder than ever before,
We can make a world without war.
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(3-18-03) Mokai releases a song for peace. World Without War
inspires us to believe in our strength and to expand our our actions
towards peace.
The song World Without War will be included on Mokai's debut release,
Unearthed, on April 21, 2003. For more about him please visit his
site at www.mokaiMusic.com
