Born Without Hate

From unspeakable acts of evil, beauty and good, they can spring While the tyrant sinks into personal hell, the hurt ones hearts can fly glide and sing Jazz and blues and folk and reggae, they were forged in fire and flames The shimmering strength of the human soul, can smash the bonds of all these chains CHORUS Please, brother please Can you hear what I have to say Please, Mister please There are lessons to learn today Please, brother, please We're all born without hate One fine day One fine day One fine day Many backs against many walls They recall the dreadful lash Shackles crack, and are shaken off Phoenix rise, up from the ash I feel the hate, in my own land against me for who I am And I see the hate for the immigrant man And yet my own are in every land CHORUS Kate Tempest: I took a breath and in it were the screams of every grieving Mother and Daughter The heaving of the water thick with oil The dreaming of the prisoner Staring at the walls and imagining the kisses of her son And I was sickened by the fumes The city's on its knees Blood's dripping from the teeth of the kids who walk the street The junkie with a baby in her womb Numb beneath the stranger in her room But then I took a step and with it I walked past the feeling that there's nothing I can do to help or grasp with any certainty Life is ours to take care of You can't love what you're scared of and love is the key I took another breath and with it I was sure that no matter what's to come or what has been before we have the right now the right here to make peace with No hidden truth no secret We have all the answers already we were born without hate Eyes bright hearts heavy Skies full of lightning tonight The clouds' bellies are purple and ready to rain What's pleasure to the man that has never known pain Never known pain