TELL THE STORY

The voice so strong echoing the call to march to stand for all

Looking to the future to remember the past wondering will this movement last

As the halls go silent never to forget who brought us to this

Tell the story of those who came before us creating a movement that we trust

Tell the story of a boy taken from his home not long ago

Tell the story of the man who went to the mountain top to tell that story

The yellow paint on the streets will it become a forgotten page fading away

Fading away as our ancestor's vague story becoming yellowing pages in our history books

This is our story of those claiming peace and those claiming hate

Tell the story of those who started a movement all the children who grew from it

Tell the story of a girl shook the world just to walk into school

Tell the story of a dream yet to be fulfilled and the hope that it one day will

A friendly greeting a warm handshake is the kind of power I'd like to emulate

A true hero doesn't carry weapons he carries a conviction for peace and equality

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

DIWALI

Never seen the night so bright
Even inside when feeling soul the light
This is the time to change from wrong to right

Where is the party when it is Diwali
Music and dancing when it is Diwali
Celebrating a new day when it is Diwali

From the temple to home knowledge in the light is what we all know
I am soul, you are soul, intellectual cleaning will make us free
Remove all the webs and dust know that it is the love we can trust

So much food when it is Diwali

Light triumphs of the night when it is Diwali

Celebrating a new life when it is Diwali

Goddess Lakshmi comes and dances with me

She got all the wealth and prosperity it is much more than charity

Clearing the way for respect and dignity

Light the lamps when it is Diwali

Felling the peaceful mood when it is Diwali

Celebrating a new me when it is Diwali

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

GOT NO WORDS

Harts and souls have gone so cold forgetting what we are marching for

Others claiming to a movement that is not theirs acting like they really care

As Karin cries that this isn't fair worried about what she wears  

Got no words when the silence makes it worse

Hiding while my brother dying as the leaders are lying 

To you and me about what is so obviously 

To much worry in this world teaching it to every boy and girl

Punished for living in poverty hear the calls for equality

Not understanding the reality play hide and seek with COVID-19

Got no words when the heart hurts when every turn thing are worse  

So much consumption worried where our next meal will come from

When we should be worried where is all the peace and love

March during the day, dance during the night is the new way to fight

Walls and fences divide us all who has to die to save another life

Offended by the yellow paint as you live in your hate

Got no words when the third eye is blind to your own mind

Gave away your soul for nothing so one ego can have all the control

Living like a poor man just for a MAGA hat

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

KARIN CRIES

Wasn't looking for her but she came out of nowhere and got in the way

I don't think that the Queen of England acts the same

No cure for what she has she is a victim of her own pain

Karin cries when she knows she not right

Living in her own mental lies

Karin cries at whatever she finds

Loosing out when it has nothing to do with constitutional rights 

Threaten to make a call not knowing she is the one soon to fall

Bitten by the white snake the venom in her blood she got no love

No one knows her pain, no one knows why she acts that way

Karin cries not knowing she has given up her pride

Easily selling off her freedom to someone wish her dead

Karin cries dry tears no container it fills

No cure for the ills of her head

One blame, one shame, has yet to know the pain

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

ESSENCE OF TIME

What do you need from me

Lurking following, there is a sense of you, but I can't see

To understand you is always changing

With no destination my life I am rearranging

What I need from you

I need a schedule to keep pace, is all I can do

Can't quite what I have started

Late to the party isn't what I wanted

Who you think you are

Can't describe you near or far

Never in one place, you got no face

Without you, I might never get paid

Who am I without you

Can't keep an appointment without you

Always running late looking like a fool

Try to keep you on my wrist treat you like a tool

Nothing grows without you

Nothing moves without you

No schedules without you

This is the essence of you

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

 

THE SOLUTION IS IN YOU THE SOUL

Freedom isn't free unless you get up and speak
Patriotism isn't a reason to create a wall
It is a reason we should be inclusive to all

Look deep within and become your best friend 

Then look outward and see your unlimited power

The solution is in you the soul

Demand a better way got to work not just pray

March in the streets march in the capital's halls

Let your voice be heard shake those walls

Look deep at the power within that has no end

Contained in a body of flesh and bone 

The power is in you the soul

Passion is the ignition to a movement inclusive to all

As we are one fist a power that can resist

There is so much in life that we miss drop the ego and understand this

Look deep at your self there is much more than you can know

Nothing that anyone can hold nothing that can be sold

The passion is you the soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

HONEY DRIPS

Need something sweet, something to eat

Dreaming of the taste is just a waste

Inaction is a craving that sometimes goes away

Honey drips from your lips.

Passion in the words you use nothing to prove

Nourishment isn't just in the food; it is what is inside of you.

Need something sweet, something like peace

Dreaming of togetherness and what we can achieve 

Fear is just a distraction from the truth

Honey drips from his lips.

With passion in his voice, there is no other choice

Words of compassion, words with feeling, understanding the meaning

Need something sweet, something to hear

Dreaming of Marvin's words *"For only love can conquer hate."

We must march the path that they paved.

Honey drips from her lips.

Her breath through the flute knowledge is the tune

Million tears left at the fence mixed with the mace of ignorance

Need something sweet like freedom

Four hundred years of forgetting is coming to an end

Our ancestors might not have been friends, but together we can win

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020

*Marvin Gay, WHAT'S GOING ON

Written by Al Cleaveland, Marvin Gay, and Renaldo Benson

©TAMAL Records 1971