Born Without Hate - Damien Dempsey

From unspeakable acts of evil, beauty and good, they can spring

While the tyrant sinks into personal hell, the hurt ones hearts can fly glide

and sing

Jazz and blues and folk and reggae, they were forged in fire and flames

The shimmering strength of the human soul, can smash the bonds of all these

chains

Please, brother please

Can you hear what I have to say

Please, Mister please

There are lessons to learn today

Please, brother, please

We’re all born without hate

One fine day

One fine day

One fine day

Many backs against many walls

They recall the dreadful lash

Shackles crack, and are shaken off

Phoenix rise, up from the ash

I feel the hate, in my own land against me for who I am

And I see the hate for the immigrant man

And yet my own are in every land

Kate Tempest:

I took a breath and in it were the screams of every grieving Mother and Daughter

The heaving of the water thick with oil

The dreaming of the prisoner

Staring at the walls and imagining the kisses of her son

And I was sickened by the fumes

The city’s on its knees

Blood’s dripping from the teeth of the kids who walk the street

The junkie with a baby in her womb

Numb beneath the stranger in her room

But then I took a step and with it I walked past the feeling that there’s

nothing I can do to help or grasp with any certainty

Life is ours to take care of

You can’t love what you’re scared of and love is the key

I took another breath and with it I was sure that no matter what’s to come or

what has been before we have the right now the right here to make peace with

No hidden truth no secret

We have all the answers already we were born without hate

Eyes bright hearts heavy

Skies full of lightning tonight

The clouds' bellies are purple and ready to rain

What’s pleasure to the man that has never known pain

Never known pain