Martyn Joseph The Luxury of Despair Lyrics Martyn Joseph lyrics

The translucent light of another pre dawn
Squints her eyes and prepares to walk on
From Hebron's stone to Nazareth's hill
There's hope in the eyes of the hopeless still

Some walls fall that come from love
All walls fall that come from hate
Poking and pushing to make folk bite
Houses torn down by the military might
People want to live people want to roam
People want to dream people need a home
But rage in the eye won't let in light
Love makes a better job of the fight

As the sun rises in my children's eyes
I don't have the luxury, the luxury of despair
As the night rips stars across this ancient sky
I don't have the luxury, the luxury of despair

See through the eyes of a blameless child
Suffer they do to come to you
There's a bike in the road where it shouldn't be
A twelve year old taken into custody
Scared and scarred and stripped of rights
What the eyes don't see the mind can't fight
You just don't do that but you just do
Sometimes I want to


As the sun rises in my children's eyes
I don't have the luxury, the luxury of despair
As the night rips stars across this ancient sky
I don't have the luxury, the luxury of despair

Let's sit together in that sacred place
I won't grace you with the passion of fear and dread
Just look me in the eye and see my heart
I'll look you in the eye and see your heart
Just look me in the eye and see my heart
Plant trees of life and bury the dead

And if the cockerel crowed what would I deny?
I'd hope any tyranny that me my eye
Or the right of domain over the mind of a man
And the lie that we cannot be equal or free
For this wall's divide has another side and a deep blue sea
That was made for you and me

As the sun rises in my children's eyes
I don't have the luxury, the luxury of despair
As the night rips stars across this ancient sky
I don't have the luxury, the luxury of despair