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Origin Tale

from East EP by Dao Strom

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Mountain mother
mourning all her rivers
that flow with the blood of soldiers
the children who remain pick up the pieces
they plant the seeds

Dragon father
you always were so restless
so you took half of the children
and you led them south to the seashore
where you taught them freedom

Mother she is crying
but her tears fall as drops of ink
so Mother she cries a newspaper
and her sorrow is only documentary

newsreels tell me
what to feel
because I don’t know
what is real
t.v. communicates our rage
but a death count is
all that speaks
our sadness

Sister searches high & low
for her Brother she once knew in the north
and Brother he writes long letters home
“is a flag not but a piece of cloth?”

tell me
what you saw that night
when the bomb’s fire
mingled
with the starlight
thought I was witnessing
the end
of my Time
but then I learned
that the guilty
survive we survive


((we will suffer no more))
((we will not carry your war))

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from East EP, released May 24, 2013
all songs by dao strom | the sea and the mother

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