The Small Axe Ensemble

Are You Ready?

Times are changing all over the world

What will you do? I say, what will you do

when the life you know is gone,

where will you run? I say, where will you run

when the wheels of your bus are gone?

So, I must say, Are You Ready?

To bring sound to every song, mute and denied,

to speak life unto these words;

I'm unhappy with this world, and it's hands wrung 'round

mine and our...skinny necks.

It's the crisis of our times, to reap that which we have sewn,

and then to ask ourselves, Are You Ready?

 

Time to accept all that's been denied,

to take off this mask, and find

Humanity inside-

Covered up by drugs and guns, in a cellophane caccoon.

I say it's time to break free,

to stretch these forgotten wings

And thus born anew

Are You Ready?

For you'll hear it in a scream, or hear it in a whisper

The words of today-

I don't want to fall in love with the ways of this world, with

it's wars and wage death! There must be

another way, than the seeds of our fathers' work

and so I shall say...

Are you Ready?