Silent Witness Anthem

Violence in our homes, cries fill the night
behind closed doors and out of sight
Anger rules, tempers flare.
Love tangles and tears.

Bitter words turn to blows.
The secret, no one knows.
Innocent faces, pure of heart
rips their world apart.

Takes away their innocence,
Fills them with self doubt.

Out of darkness,
through the silence of the wounded and oppressed,
comes hope and a new light,
the courage to change and to do what's right.

Entrenched in time, part of our core,
some say the fruit of war.
So we pass it on, father to son,
to them we give a loaded gun.

It's everywhere we look
and it's everywhere we go,

Out of the darkness
through the silence of the wounded and oppressed,
comes hope and a new light,
the courage to change and to do what's right.

To all those fallen without a name,
we hear your cries, they won't be in vain. Hold on...

Out of the darkness,
through the silence of the wounded and oppressed,
comes hope and  a new light,
the courage to change and to do what's right.


© Mark Szmanda, 1997, all rights reserved.