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Rewriting History (If You Don't Know Where You've Been)

from Homeroad by Roger Lucey

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Look around for the traces
Or the signs they left behind
There’s no one here who knows the faces
It’s funny how they just went blind

And the road it just gets longer
And further from our past
And our memories just get shorter
And the future comes so fast

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And they say that there's no reason
To remember what we've seen
But you won’t know where you’re going to
If you don’t know where you been

So who dictates the landscape
And the picture we will see
If the money buys the whisky
Will the talk be silenced endlessly?

A nation’s strength lies in its people
And a nation’s heart is hard to hold
And the people’s stories are its history
And without a past we’ve got no soul

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Like steps to the future
We tread them with caution
We stumble and stammer
As the blame is apportioned

As the wheel comes full circle
As we unravel the mystery
Selective amnesia
Is rewriting history.

I have been into the war zones
I have seen a country bleed
I've seen chains in the eyes of children
And souls of men that can't be freed

There’s no road without a story
There’s no journey that’s been in vain
There’s no peace without atonement
There’s no joy without the pain

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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
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