The Last Lonely Leaf

This is a song I wrote in response to the Syrian refugee crisis. The song hopefully paints a picture of the darkness that these refugees go through.  We as Christians are called to help the poor, widowed and needy.

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”  (Luke 14:12-14)

I hope this song shows to at least to a few, the need of the less fortunate.

Can you hear the cries

Of the darkening skies

They howl and thunder

At the love that blunders

Oh they’ve lost it all

Can’t you see the signs

Of the soughing pines

They Whisper the names

Of the dying’ and the lame

Oh they’ve lost it all

The last lonely leaf

Is falling in our frozen world

The old man is walking

Into the west

And he has lost it all

Can you feel the souls

Of the fleeing people

Their silence is strong

Yet they sing a song

Oh they’ve lost it all

Do you know the mind

Of the little girl

Her hopes and her dreams

Torn in two

Oh she has lost it all

The last lonely leaf

Is falling in a frozen world

The old man is walking

Into the west

And he has lost it all

The cold silver bells

Are ringing in our frozen world

The people are fleeing

From the war

Oh they have lost it all

Their hopes and their dreams,

Torn in two.

Yes they have lost it all