Ed Ames Who Will Answer Lyrics

Who Will Answer Lyrics

(Chanted, with increasing melody)
From the canyons of the mind,
We wander
on and stumble blindly
Through the often-tangled maze
Of starless nights
and sunless days,
While casting for some kind of clue
Or road to lead us
to the truth,
But who will answer?

Side by side two people
stand,
Together vowing, hand-in-hand
That love's imbedded in their
hearts,
But soon an empty feeling starts
To overwhelm their hollow
lives,
And when we seek the hows and whys,
Who will answer?

High
upon a lonely ledge,
a figure teeters near the edge,
And jeering crowds
collect below
To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!"
And who will ask what
led him
To his private day of doom,
And who will answer?

On a
strange and distant hill,
A young man's lying very still.
His arms will
never hold his child,
Because a bullet running wild
Has cut him down. And
now we cry,
"Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?"
And who will
answer?

(Full melody the rest of the song)

If the soul is
darkened by a fear it cannot name,
If the mind is baffled when the rules
don't fit the game,
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will
answer?

In the rooms of dark and shades,
The scent of sandalwood
pervades.
The colored thoughts in muddled heads
Reclining in rumpled
beds
Of unmade dreams that can't come true,
And when we ask what we
should do,
Who? Who will answer?

'Neath the spreading mushroom
tree,
The world revolves in apathy
As overhead, a row of specks
Roars
on, drowned out by discotheques,
And if a secret button's pressed
Because
one man has been outguessed,
Who will answer?

Is our hope in walnut
shells
Worn 'round the neck with temple bells,
Or deep within some
cloistered walls
Where hooded figures pray in halls?
Or crumbled books on
dusty shelves,
Or in our stars, or in ourselves,
Who will
answer?

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name,
If the
mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game,
Who will answer? Who
will answer? Who will answer?
Alleluiah! Alleluiah! Alleluiah!