Inspiration

I wrote this song as a service to a non-profit agency in my community to provide the background for video footage of a protest that included negativity and accusatory verbage on both sides of the street. My daughter is in the process of editing the footage and the music video will be posted on my website soon! “Speak Love” – a good motto for life.

Lyrics

I stand on the street corner now and then
For a cause I believe in
I hold my handmade cardboard sign
So you won’t have to read my mind

And I would like to shake your hand, sit down at a table and
Make amends, make a plan and show the world we’re able to
Speak love (if you’re gonna say something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna write something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna do something)
Speak love

The children watch the things we do
They hear what I say when I talk about you
Will they grow up singing songs of peace
In a world that needs it desperately?

And I would like to shake your hand, sit down at a table and
Make amends, make a plan and show the world we’re able to
Speak love (if you’re gonna say something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna write something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna do something)
Speak love

How we gonna cross this great divide?
There’s always gonna be another side
We’ve got to think twice ‘bout what we’re sayin’ and
This foundation that we’re layin’

And I would like to shake your hand, sit down at a table and
Make amends, make a plan and show the world we’re able to
Speak love (if you’re gonna say something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna write something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna do something)
Speak love

If we think we’ll agree we’ve missed the mark
If we walk away we’ve gone to far
There’s a place somewhere between us
Where we all can learn to speak love

And I would like to shake your hand, sit down at a table and
Make amends, make a plan and show the world we’re able to
Speak love (if you’re gonna say something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna write something)
Speak love (if you’re gonna do something)
Speak love

There’s a place somewhere between us
Where we all can learn to speak love

© Feb 2011 Cris Conerty