Sounds

SOUNDS
Lyrics & Music by Linda Sussman

(1) I hear sounds every night
When I lay me down to sleep
Stories turning in my head
Enough to make me weep
I just don’t know what to do
To make a difference where it counts
So I close my eyes at night
Shut reality out.
Sounds__I hear sounds.

(2) Escape would not come easy
When running from attack
Children covered targets
Families carried on their backs
Survival streaming through their blood
And a fire in their bones
They’d pushed themselves to the brink
Risking everything they’d known.
Sounds__I hear sounds
Escucho los sonidos.

(3 - SPANISH) Como se puede ser tan cruel
Encarcelar y enjuarlos
Bebes arrebatados de sus madres
No hay mayor pecado
Los que encierran
Siguiendo a los ordenes
Son los que terminan ganando
Donde vive un nuevo peligro.

(3 - ENGLISH) How can people be so cruel
As to cage another in
Babies torn from mothers
Perhaps the greatest of all sins
Those who turn the key
On orders to lock the doors
Are those who profit
Where the danger lives once more.
Sounds__I hear sounds
Escucho los sonidos
Sounds__I hear sounds.