Soldier's Lament Lyrics - This Storm - Sonya Kitchell

He fight and he pray, he love and he bleed 

To no satisfaction, was note as need 

And when he walks, stands tall as he can 

For he's a man, yeah, he's a man 

And when he crumbles, resolve to the ground 

Like burnt bits of paper, life flutters round 

All eyes turn away, no one wants to see 

A man who has lost, in the fight to be free 

For we've been out runnin' for all of our lives 

No chance and stop and we'd surely lose sight 

In the back of his mind is a smiling face 

The one who said, "You know, it's no race" 

The one who said, "You got time to breathe" 

'Cause child you're born, we're all born free 

In the back of his mind is the back of a room 

So dust enshrouded and no dust broom 

Stands a chance to clear the cobwebs away 

So live in the back, in the dark it'll stay 

And we've been out runnin' for all of our lives 

No chance, and stop, and we'd surely lose sight 

Tell me son, what are you livin' for? 

Tell me boy, what are you livin' for? 

Tell me son, what are you livin' for? 

Tell me, tell me, what are you livin' for?