I originally wrote this piece in 2004 or 2005. It came to me after an image of a mother holding her dead child came to me ~ a result of war (the war in Iraq was raging). I tried to get some publicity for it to show the side of war that MSM and others were refusing to see ~ death of the innocent.
As was and is with my music, it has just sat in isolation, until breakthrough comes or a chance to play comes my way. I had forgotten about this song until tonight. As I was enjoying some time alone playing freely, I suddenly began to just play this song. It caught me off guard for even though I was in free flow, playing whatever came through me, whether a cover or one of my own, I had not given this song any tending to in years. I was also surprised at how quickly it came back to me ~ as in instantly. Also unusual.
As I played it, it took on new meaning, new energy. Expansive. I thought of the beautiful precious children who have been trafficked, raped, used for the sickest of “purposes” – if you can even use that word. Given I recently spoke about this subject and how I could just not spend much energy going down that rabbit hole, certainly not able to stay “down there” for long, I thought the least I could do was what, honor? them with this song.
I song to say we feel your pain. We see it. As best we can.
We mourn. We rage.
A song of solidarity. A song to say “I see you”. A song to say “you are not forgotten. You never have been. You never will be.” A song to say YOU MATTER.
And a song to say we the human species will never allow this horror plagued upon our children to infiltrate our human experience again.
Here it is below ~ live, unedited. “For The Children”. Feel free to share.
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