Скачать или смотреть If You Knew My Name ~ Stacey Joy ~ NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2022

This is a song I wrote for Ukrainian people, and Russian people. But not only for them. It is also for all the victims of war, prejudice, racism, and hate crimes against humanity.

If You Knew My Name

By Stacey Joy
(lyrics)

You don’t know my name
But I’m the one you blame
Trapped behind the lines
Drawn in the sands of time
While the missiles fly

You can’t see my face
That you’re told to hate
Silenced and alone left out in the cold
That’s where sorrow grows

All this fighting and war
Has nothing to do with what they say it's for
All this fighting and war
Is a game we lose
While they get more and more

If you knew my name
You’d see we’re both the same
And that it’s up to us
If we want to stand up
To the powers that reign

All this fighting and war
Has got nothing to do with what they say it's for
All this fighting and war
Is a game we lose
While they take more and more

And more and more and more
And more and more and more
And more and more and more
And more and more and more
And more of our lives

So let the sun shine
We’ll change these times
Side by side
Oh let the sun shine
I’ll know you’re name
And you’ll know mine
Let the sun shine down on your face
While I hold you close
Together we’ll create a place for Joy to grow

When I know your name
And you know mine
We can heal the divide
And not be lost to the sands of time

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