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What Will We Tell Our Children?

from Sisterly by Jean Rohe

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What Will We Tell Our Children?

Oh, we're tripping on the trigger 'cause we're tipsy and numb
Wake up wondering, “Where'd all this blood come from?”
So now we're sighing and we're sifting the disturbing debris
Get your story straight. Honey, what'll it be?

And what will we tell our children,
our children when they ask us, “What did you do?”

Oh, we're strangers, we're squatters, we're signs of the times
And we are citizens, virtues and crimes.
And we're anxious. And it's not us who'll write this history
Judgement as citizens. Rite of citizenry.

And what will we tell our children,
our children when they ask us, “What did you do?”

Did you choose the struggle or the easy prize?
Did you organize? Did we organize?
Did we find our power
In the man of the hour or the gifts we have inside?

Did you put pen to paper? Did you sacrifice?
Did you do it once? Did you do it twice?
Do it three times, baby?
Did you just wait it out with your hands on your ears
or did you scream and shout?

Did you speak the truth when it mattered most?
Did you mean it, now, tell me did you mean it?
Did you run and hide?
Oh, your palms on your eyes. Yes, did you cry?
Oh, sometimes you cried

Did you love your neighbor, did you love yourself?
Did you give enough? Did you get enough?
Did you stay the fight?
Hold your lover close and make a little light?

Did you choose the struggle or the easy prize?
Did you organize? Did we organize?
Did we find our power
In the man of the hour or the gifts we have inside?

One by one cut the stone, two by two bone to bone,
three by three make it so, isn't it enough?

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from Sisterly, released November 2, 2018

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Jean Rohe Brooklyn, New York

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. She is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant recipient. Her latest full-length record as a bandleader, "Sisterly," won best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards in 2019. ... more

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