Share the well

I did not catch her name I did not catch her tears But they hit me like a train When her story hit my ears Mother of eight sons Father off to war Got no home address Just bricks on a dirt floor And...

Father God, you have shed your tears for Mother India They have fallen to water ancient seeds That will grow into hands that touch the untouchable How blessed are the poor, the sick, the weak Father,...

Je Ra Ji Ra, Ji Ra, De Ji Ra, De Ji Ji Ji Share the well, share with your brother Share the well my friend It takes a deeper well to love one another Share the well my friend Je Ra Ji Ra, Ji Ra, De Ji...

Left his seamless robe behind Woke up in a stable crying Lived and died and rose again Savior for a guilty land It’s a story like a children’s tune And it’s grown familiar as the moon So now I ride...

The rain in Bombay falls on the righteous and the wrong And there is no way for me to understand Faces pull toward me like the sea to the moon Eyes like diamonds in the sun Abraham’s grains of sand...

I woke to the sirens of the city They were calling me to hold my head up high But the truth was in the dust that hangs like curtains From the beggars to the sky The ads and billboards rained in every...

Huddled in the light of a cellular billboard A family of four is a nation at war In her head are the echoes of weeping Of children the Sunday before The promises made by her father Are no match for...

Hola, me llamo Efrain I was born among the agave All I need is this transistor radio I am in a band, it's a family band With the brothers in the years above me And now we have a song that we'd like to...

Can I take your picture, put it in my billfold? You'll never believe where I will take you Can I have your headband, put it in my suitcase? I'm always gone before I think to thank you I'm a soul that...