Eco

Silence, from silence I make a shout
And my whole body aches
Let me cry a little

Don't write empathy if you don't care
Look at Palestine and the houses burning
Look at Colombia and the appeal for freedom
To the police, the militia, the aggression

And what do you want to talk about?
The store that closed, the party that someone cancelled
The clothes you didn't buy
And what are you talking about? The friends you haven't seen
When sadness insists on painting the city

The hashtag is worthless if the soul is small
There is neither a cardinal to save it nor clout to steal the spotlight
Blood flows in the streets, bombs falling from the sky
Of families like yours that nobody rescued

Don't listen to me, don't follow me, if you don't care
I came to kick every door open
I came to talk about genocide, about racism on the mic
Some hide behind cynicism, I blow the whistle

And I pray to God, light a candle, and ask
Why did You give us the Earth if you didn't rule the world?
Why did you give us war and the will to want everything?
Why do those who suffer shout and those who govern are deaf?

I hug my children tonight, firmly
I give thanks for the peace and the food on the table
And I just think of those who were left with nothing
Of the poor's soup, the soup of sorrow

Don't write empathy if you don't care
To be empathetic is to show up
It's suffering when you see someone suffering
It's the wound in someone else's body that keeps hurting
That keeps hurting
That keeps hurting
That keeps hurting

Silence, from silence I make a shout
And my whole body aches
Let me cry a little

Silence, from silence I make a shout
And my whole body aches
Let me cry a little