Songtext Breaking the silence Loreena Mckennitt

Breaking the silence

Music and lyrics by Loreena McKennitt

I hear some distant drumbeat, a heartbeat pulsing low
Is it coming from within, a heartbeat I don't know?
A troubled soul knows no peace, a dark and poisoned pool
Of liberty now lost, a pawn, an oppressor's tool

Chorus:
Oh my heart be strong
And guide when eyes grow dim
When ears grow deaf with empty words
When I know there's life within

A gunfire shatters silence where birds once sweetly sang
A mother cradles a child now dead, now death where life began
From the troubled heart of South Africa, Nicaragua's festering sore
The turmoil on the streets of China, death crying out for more

(Chorus)

A change is slow in coming, my eyes can scarcely see
The rays of hope come streaming through the smoke of apathy

(Chorus)

May the spirit never die though a troubled heart feels pain
When the long winter is over, it will blossom once again