Promenade

Salvador deserves to live
He didn’t ask to be abandoned
Police take what they cannot give
In the middle of the night

Its an unnerving story
But not especially rare
In a place where life’s abundant
And people just don’t care

For money rules the lives of some
People and their ways
Just another business day
In the real world’s promenade

Daufon is a refugee
Child of child exiled by war
Victimized by propaganda
Taken in by Christian causes

They take her from her family and
She is adopted in the west
They anglicize her name to what
They think is best

Now she finds she’s become a tool
To the people that now rule
A missionary student’s day
In the real world’s promenade

I don’t share stories here to say
We have no cause for hope
That the people of the world can’t live without
Malice, guns or dope

So listen to these words I share
While going on your way
Maybe we can help some way
In the real world’s promenade

Maybe we can help some way
In the real world’s promenade

Maybe we can help some way
In the real world’s promenade

Trumpet: Nolan Shaheed

The song pretty much speaks for itself. One of the things I like about the music is the five-against-two movement at the end of each verse.