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Heroes

from Homeroad by Roger Lucey

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The valley is peaceful
No sign of disention or rage
Small towns like pictures
Waiting for life to engage
Homesteads and field
The sweet smell of fruit on the trees
The heat of the valley
Floats like a flame on the breeze
But hidden from view is
The hunger and death and disease
The peace in the valley
Will shatter like silence
Like a raging beast brought to it's knees

Heroes where are the heroes

The voices of power
Now sound like the fumbling of fools
Where reason is dangerous
Danger will make it's own rules
But it's all so familiar
Like a dream that you wake from in fear
And nothing is moving
And nothing is changing round here
There's a feeling of floundering
In a ship that no one can steer
And the peace in the vallley
Is broke by rumbling
As the roaring and raging draw near

The valley is peaceful
But gloom hangs like shadows and shame
And no one believes in the talk
Or the terms of the game
And the Heroes sit pretty
They close their ranks and their eyes
And it's only beginnig
As the flame of the ideal dies
And the mothers sit helpless
As the night fills with darkness and cries
And the peace in the valley
Will burst like a drumbeat
As the next wave of heroes arrive

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from Homeroad, released January 1, 2004

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Roger Lucey Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Lucey (born 1954) is a musician, journalist, film maker, actor and educator who was born in South Africa

In the late '70s and early '80s his music career was destroyed by South African Special Branch, because the lyrics to Lucey's protest songs were considered a threat to the Apartheid State

With the end of Apartheid bringing freedom, Roger is again performing, with a new album in progress ... more

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