Universal Empathy - Paula Cole

What the Universe needs right now is some mutual understanding

The good and gentle kindnesses in every day actions

In the best of ourselves lies a child full of hope

One who feels every sunset and tree, elephant and crow

This is the root of the dwelling place of every living soul

Connection!

All you white men, guarding your gates, know your privilege it comes

From the luck of the lottery, some bullshit genetic caste system

You had a mother, so why you gonna take her down?

Give us our equality, our choice, our bodies are our own

Connection!

Connection to our Universal Empathy

Oceans full of plastic killing those who cannot speak

Such an immoral/needless waste of rainforest biodiversity

The planet needs her oxygen, we people need her trees

This blindness is a murdering of every living being

Connection!

Feeling connection to our Universal Empathy

We send our brothers off to jails, to a system of deceit

Bail is based on skin color, the darker you are, the longer you’re in

Then working for slave wages for corporate plantations

Profiteering from free labor, they want to build more prisons

While children go to foster care and families

Are broken

Connection!

Feeling Connection to our Universal Empathy

I want to get militant, I want to divide and scream

But I think on Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream

I know that in every soul regardless of their skin

Or age or sex or identity lies the empathy within

Connection!

Feeling Connection to our Universal Empathy

OM, OM, OM, OM, OM

Relax, and breathe, and look within to your third eye

Relax, and breathe, and listen to your heartbeat

Heartbeat

Relax, and breathe, and look within to your third eye

Relax, and breathe, and listen to your heartbeat

Heartbeat

Connection!

Feeling connection to our Universal Empathy

Connection to Ourselves and to the Mother and Us All

Connection to our Universal Empathy