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Sadness​/​Sadness For America

from Pairing by Steve Day, Mark Langford, Julian Dale

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lyrics

Ornette cried for his own country often enough.
Turned his tears inside out and spoke like most
musicians could not; to speak of things the rest
lacked the vocabulary to tell.

Sadness for America played live at a distance in
1965. Too close, would bring the devil to your
door; invite plague to invade. Which is what has
happened, as we know well.

If he were here today Ornette would be weeping
with your grief and sharing the sorrowing for all
those young men’s lives as a terrible war wound,
dressing an enigma in hell.

For this was the beauty of his sadness for a land
where the men who live in the white house deny
respect to women and your stars stripe the skies
marking where freedom fell.

Oh, America, if he were here today Ornette would
play this love song for your soul. But as it is, the
price of a beloved’s heart has already been paid.
Melancholia is a magic spell.

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from Pairing, released January 2, 2020

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