KNEEL

Day to day there comes more pain
Wondering will justice really make it go away
Hear the sister calling as the brother is falling

Kneel to heal a loving heart
Kneel to remember where it all starts
Kneel not to separate but to be apart
Respect to the way we all should feel

We look to the leaders for something to say
All they can say is "Thoughts and prayers."
Those are words blasphemy today.

Kneel because you pray
Kneel because freedom demands it
Kneel because you will not give in to hate
Respect to all when you kneel

Thousands of voices call for justice to one def ear.
Got to take a stand make the move you the way is clear
Hate will grow in a vacuum when you don't make any noise.

Kneel in the churches
Kneel in the streets
Kneel not because it is easy but because it is hard
Respect comes from the heart

A symbol of peace has a historic legacy of death and hate.
A child's name spoken in a context of racial shame
Now a leader's deceit calls kneeling an insulting to his own humanity.

Kneel because it is right
Kneel because it brings hate out into the light
Kneel because it is the way Martin would fight
Respect is what you feel when you kneel

We raise our children to worry
We make excuses when our vision is blurry
Justice is just the blind leading the blind.

Kneel to remember George
Kneel to remember Breonna
Kneel to remember Ahmaud
As the list goes on
Respect should be given to the one that kneels.


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2017 - 2020

LIVING FOR THE SOUND

There is something in the sound
Not word to bring it down
So turn it up now

If it is something you want to do
If it is something in you need just see it through
There is nothing for you to prove
Know everything is from the heart

Living for the sound
A talented power that makes you say wow
Your living in the past if your living now

Girl, you stepped on my heart with your stiletto heels
I am a person and I still feel
And that is something you can't steel
I know the sound will help me to heal

Living for the sound
It will bring me up when I am down
Takes a lifetime to bring it back around

The purple omens of the sound
Keep me driving around town
The girls come for a ride it doesn't have to be loud
The love sign sticks to glass no need to ask


©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2017

BORN IN JUNE

Found a place It takes no space
There it is never cold you never get old
Time is just a destination living without limitations
Many lifetimes pass you by you think you'll do it differently next time

The flowers bloomed in May but you came in June
In the fall the flowers are gone too soon in April so did you
Pass you again in another life, will be like a blind man seeing the light

Love is never changing even when someone thinks its an activity
Kindness is a state of mind away to live right
Peace can be achieved if you believe in these things
Freedom should not be negotiated it should be like the air that we breathe

The flowers bloomed in May but you came in June
I wish you would come and whisper in my ear a new tune
The music that comes from you is my muse

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2017

CANVAS BAG

What have you seen is not for my eyes
Just an excuse for peace to turn out to be a lie
You were not alive but you hold the memories inside
Taken along for the change of lives

Canvas bag
Woven in you is the pain of history
Canvas bag
Mud or sand carried to many lands
Canvas bag
A companion no one understands

Learning to forget but desiring to remember
As the mind navigating the rapids of a river
Celebrated and degraded in the same breath
Memorialized the living death

Canvas bag
Woven threads now called home
Canvas bag
No hero's welcome only to be left alone
Canvas bag
Promises made to one day forget

Everything is forgotten in you
Filled with political promises never to come true
Carried on the back of an innocent man
Wondering what is the master plan

Canvas bag
Woven survivor faded green the nightmares you have seen
Canvas bag
Forgotten in a closet but your memories in the minds of lost lives
Canvas bag
Your journey is filled with unanswered questions why but defined as freedom




©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2017

PURPLE SOUL

Little boy, I see the creativity in your eye
Sometimes you want to hide
One day you'll find it deep inside
Everyone will be inspired

Don't you know what you hold
It is worth so much more than gold
Step to the mike and show your a Purple Soul

Little man, you know what you have
When you touch those strings with your hand
The sounds you make will make the whole world dance
You got the plan you know your path

Don't know why you haven't grown old
If you held anything back it would just explode
Just to touch those strings you are a Purple Soul

How can I ever know what inspires you
How can I find that same kind of muse
The same one that danced for you
Don't want to be like you just want to be as cool as you

Don't know why you left your story untold
What you have never can be sold
Everything you are is Purple Soul

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2017

TRAPPED

If you don't like the bitter taste of a lie then spit it out
But how can you when it is not coming from your mouth
The truth is uncomfortable at first it might even hurt
Claim it, don't let it run away push through it like a new birth

Trapped in the lie thinking your in the light
Trapped in reality you're living in the night
A lie is like a drug that will never free the mind

If you don't think you know wrong from right
Making excuses for another person's lie
Thinking your lead the game but those lies but you to shame
Walking with your daddy's name you got no one else to blame

Trapped in the lie the way you talk some think your high
Trapped in reality may be you just had a lobotomy
The mind is a terrible thing even when it is in your own brain

Just don't admit hope that everyone will forget 

CIAROSALIE

Can't be too shy when all you need is a ride
After this weekend no time to reminisce
You got those goals and you know there is more

Ciarosalie
No one can see what she can be
Inspired by premature love
She knows where she comes from

A Jersey girl fell from heaven to this world
Asked if it hurt
                  she says, no I am about to put a dent in this earth
She knows her own worth

Ciarosalie
With head full of dreams she got to be free
Inspired by premature love
Father, Mother, Sister Brother family is all about trust

Her dark femininity is where she gets her strength
Marten had a dream that he didn't see
She is evidence of that dream and everything she is about to be

Ciarosalie
Keeping that desire knowing success is more than a need
Inspired by premature love
No one can't deny she is blessed from above

Rebecca Lee forged a path
Now she knows she has to go beyond that
Life is more than just a dance

©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2017