How Long? from How Long? by Luke Maguire Armstrong

At first, you were a child, a sweet being of heaven, but Money came calling in that voice so enthralling.
Then you were falling into the empty game, where nobody wins, but everybody pays.

The price of their whole life, if they fooled you once they probably fool you twice so when haunted by this cold, dark stormy night, remember that it’s you who carries the light if you don’t give into the broken end demands, you may just find a better plan

First plan your escape and plan to retake all the light they stole from your heart.

Sister and brothers, stop being smothered.
Sons and daughters, stop drowning in their waters
Sing.

How long how long will we sing their broken songs?
How long how long before the walls come tumbling down?
How long how long how long how long

So sons and daughters, fathers and mothers do you see well all sisters and brother
Sons and daughters, fathers and mothers do you see well all sisters and brother
Sing

How long, how long, how long how long
Before their walls come tumbling down
And we’re hear the great sound
And we write a new song
How long how long how long how long

So glory be, to each new day, another chance, to find your way, to live with heart, and trust your faith, smile at your smile your heart knows the way
mile after mile your heart knows the way, trial after trial your heart knows the way. Sing

How long, how long, how long how long
Before their walls come tumbling down
And we’re hear the great sound
And we write a new song
How long how long how long how long

• Folk
• kirtan
• mantra
• mantras
• piano
• poetry
• Guatemala