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Human Cost

Explosions rip apart the city and
Parents slip into despair ‘cos their
Children die crushed under buildings, their
Lives denied for someone else’s gain
The imprint lies there in the rubble of
External ties to the enlisted groups of
Mercenaries who cause the damage
They’re paid to please the global lords of pain

CH
Who will hold out a helping hand?

So many leave now from their homeland
Who will receive these banished people?
Whose rights decrease at every border
With no bird of peace to bring a branch of hope

Danger waits around the corner the
Trader’s rates steal any savings, go
Only by night, head for the shore
Squeeze in tight just breathing cargo

Some are lost during the crossing
A human cost of foreign policy
The pirates make more than a killing and the
Waves will take down what they overload

CH
And the consequences stand
People forced from their own land
Who will hold out a helping hand?

Those empty buildings we could open, there’s
Space to fill if there’s the will but there’s
Other things on the agenda the
Corrupted rings have all the traps laid

And so these lives look for a foothold
But the problem lies at our door ‘cos we’re
Party to their home’s destruction taxes
Paid that do get lethal weapons made

CH
And the consequences stand
These actions force them to be damned
There is blood upon our hands
Who will hold out a helping hand?

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from Gold Has Worn Away, released December 6, 2019

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Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess UK

Benji is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Key member of folk big band Bellowhead, Benji has been performing solo for 25 years. Lauded releases such as Boomerang (2008), Hendrix Songs (2015) and Gold Has Worn Away (2019, with own band Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess) have punctuated his work alongside others – Seth Lakeman, Steeleye Span, Faustus, Oysterband etc ... more

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