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Give Me Dirty Hands

from Somewhere Sunshine by Rachael Brady

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GIVE ME DIRTY HANDS

They turned away when blacks swung in the breeze, noosed at the neck from the branch of a tree. They walked past Treblinka with their eyes to the ground – compliant and silent – not a sound. They dine just out of sight of the slaughterhouse door and then muse loud on love and the tragedy of war but their hands are never dirty and their eyes are closed so tight and the deed is passed on and excuses are made so they can sleep at night. They say “kill” but their blood never spills and their body won’t go to ground. And they will stand in the palace their lips red from the chalice, grinning and greedy and deaf to the sounds of the battlefield’s screams and the death of young dreams that they call making men. And I wait… I wait for their empire to crumble so the lovers can rebuild again because their hands are never dirty and their eyes are closed so tight and the deed is passed on and excuses are made so they can sleep at night – no your hands are never dirty and you close your eyes so tight and you will reason with impunity while you can watch while others die. Will we conveniently see nothing and then assume our consciences are clean? Will we pass here unnoticed to the strains of blood-curdling screams? Ignorance is so far from bliss when it’s as blind as this – so give me dirty hands.

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from Somewhere Sunshine, released August 30, 2008

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Rachael Brady Sydney, Australia

Rachael Brady has one of those voices you only find in singers grounded by their guts into a life deeply & often messily lived.
It isn't sweet, high or perfect.
It’s a voice that sings its scars & imperfections.
It’ll probably sing some of yours too.
Brady is currently (2024) recording her 4th studio album "Bears, Witches & Wolves" with Blue Mountains based producer Josh Schuberth. ... more

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