WOMAN TO WOMAN

words by Rabbi Sofer and Carolyn McDade;
music by Carolyn McDade

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself

To act in fear increases fear
To act in trust increases trust
To act in delusion increases delusion
To act our truth increases truth

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself

To act in submission increases domination
To act with integrity increases equality
To know our anger frees our love
To free our love reveals our rage

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself

To act in hate increases hate
To act in love increases love
To act in despair increases despair
To act in hope increases hope

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself

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I AM ENRAGED

words and music by Carolyn McDade

I am enraged that children die with bellies round
while fields once of grain are graveyards of bombs.
That people live in shacks of discarded tin
while we with our scriptures pretend, pretend

I am enraged that words can mean most anything
that missiles are hailed like promise of Spring
That peace can mean the threat that millions die
We stand midst our weapons, friends, we lie, we lie

I am enraged that we invoke the name of God
to bless our gold, guns and rod
We turn the day against her sister night
and speak of peace, my friends, with guns and might

I am enraged that women, cast aside unheard,
are robbed of our children as well as our word
Our bodies raped, our souls too, like slaves, like foe
but now we know, my friends, we know, we know

So thus in rage, my heart doth leap, my hands do rise
and I must choose to care or despise
If dare we see the fury within the dove
then dare we to labor, friends, with love, with love