David Heavenor: Music

The song has its origins during the Bosnian Civil War when we were bombarded daily with images of the carnage in Sarajevo.

LIES TAKE SHAPE



Frost of the window, gossamer thin
The wind from the valleys gets under your skin
Words in a headline cut you like a shard
A bomb in a playground, a child's life is devoured


And lies take shape, lies inflame
Lies absolve you from your Christian name
Launch your lies upon your lips
Your lies will follow you like a pirate ship


They're pointing a camera, a face fills out the frame
The serpent of war uncoils its scales again
A woman lies battered, her children lie dead
If it makes you shout out a question, the answers sticks in your head



Send me a sign, oh my sister, send me a sign I pray
Write down a line that I might reach them
In this passion play


So follow the moment, the rose garden is still
The stone eyes of the Saviour stare out from the hill
Into the eyes of the city where they've perfected the art
God is a religion when He's pushed out of your heart


The child lies at the altar, heads bowed down in prayer
The face of her future masked by a black veil
So lay her in clover, wrap her in silk
I dreamed that this darkness is sweeter than milk