I wrote this song in commemoration of the refugees and migrants who have lost their lives or are struggling to retain theirs.
The migrant crisis has really tested Europe and put it in a scrutinising light and its true colours are shining through. Whilst loads of hopeful action has been taken by the EU, there is still a shameful amount that we can and must do.
We are seeing thousands of refugees drowning by the coast of the worlds richest continent. Over 2,600 people have died in the Mediterranean this year.
Some of the worst tragedies among many in 2015 so far include two boats from Libya with about 500 people sinking, 71 dead Syrian refugees found in a truck in Austria and 800 dead after a shipwreck off the coast of Italy.
Migrants also face abuse from human traffickers, many of whom demand to be paid thousands of dollars who use the chaos of the crisis to exploit the vulnerable migrants.
Parent do not risk the lives of their family like this unless they are faced with utter desperation and hopelessness.
The majority of migrants seeking refugee in the EU are escaping the dreadful civil war in Syria. Millions of civilians are facing countless human rights abuses and the targeting of schools and hospitals in a conflict they are not involved in.
Meanwhile, politicians have set up patrols in the Mediterranean who capture and destroy boats before migrants board them. Hungary has set up a 175km razor-wire fence with plans to strengthen it in the upcoming weeks as they predict heave influx due to its Schengen zone. Journalist have described the migrants coming in ‘floods’, ‘invasions’ and ‘swarms’; dehumanising them to the level of mosquitoes.
The migrants will not ‘destroy our national identity’. Their war torn country has stripped them of one. They are not seeking to invade or conquer (as we once have in history) but are only seeking to live, to stay alive. These people are in such desperate need that we couldn’t even begin to imagine and it is our responsibility as wealthy nations on the other side of the sea to do the best we can to help. Can we really be so selfish that out ‘national identity’ or our ‘scarce’ recourses take priority over these desperate innocent people. The asylum seekers are not looking to take up all our resources for themselves, they are looking to say alive. Lets show some bloody humanity and hospitality. Our ‘scarce’ recourses could perform miracles to these people who require so little of the resources that we ourselves demand to much of. We are all one world and then see what wonderful things our new citizens can contribute to the EU.
Lyrics:
Came back from school today
Just to find an empty space
Where my home once stood
Waiting for me
All that was left was my mother
She was crying to the heaven all alone
She said baby everyones gone
Everyones gone
It’s just you an me alone
My heart sank to my feet
My sorrow hit me so deep
A nightmare had become a reality
How can evil sit so deeply,
In a soldier, a war, an ideology
It kills everything that is left
After the casualties are dead
So I cried
Mother will we escape this
Mother will you find us safety
Mother it is getting cold out here
With the bombs
On the sea
Without family
Mother will you hold me
Mother will you hold me
She hugged me so tight
Past her shoulder, such an awful sight
A community had become a cemetery
She stroked my hair and my cheek
Looked into my eyes and softly said
They have reached a better place
No time and space
No sorrow, just grace
Just a waiting game
Until we will be the same
Death from hate will too become our fate
I will get us out of here
I said how, she said somehow
We still have love, the strongest force
That I know brings miracles
So I cried
Mother will we escape this
Mother will you find us safety
Mother it is getting cold out here
With the bombs
On the sea
Without family
Mother will you hold me
Mother will you hold me
Turned our back to the destruction,
To our past and embarked on
A journey for our life
Strong and humble warriors
Striving through hunger, illness and fear
Baby don’t give up
Don’t give up
We’ve come too close to hope for that
I heard cheers and screams
This boat will lead us to our dreams
To land on the other side of the sea
She took my hand and ran onboard
And said, I told you miracles do come true
They screamed, Set sail for a better world
To a better world
Where we will not be unheard
Cheers slowly turned into fears
As our progress turned slow
Ice cold sea had swallowed us
The last thing I heard was my mother
I am so sorry
I thought, It’s ok
I’m ready for the place of grace
Mother will we escape this
Mother will you find us safety
Mother it is getting cold out here
With the bombs
On the sea
Without family
Mother will you hold me
Mother will you hold me
