Loreena Mccennitt Breaking The Silence Lyrics

Breaking The Silence Lyrics

I hear some distant drumbeat
A heartbeat pulsing low
It is coming from
within
A heartbeat I don't know
A troubled heart knows no peace
A dark
and poisoned pool
Of liberty now lost
A pawn an opressor's tool

Oh
my heart must 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

A change is slow in coming
My eyes
can scarcely see
The rays of hope come streaming
Through the smoke of
apathy

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

May the spirit never die
Though a troubled heart feels
pain
When this long winter is over
It will blossom once again.