we hurt each other, then we do it again

this week chris moyles has been evangelically promoting the new version of U2's One featuring Mary j. Blige on his radio 1 breakfast show.

so, 3 mornings in a row i've heard it and each time i have been struck by that line

something resonating about our persistance as humanity to be brutal to one another...

also thinking there are reflections of our unhealed fault lines damaging the other in the line:

you act like you never had love
and you want me to go without

regardless, i returned to the song as i read this article from the greenbelt website... look for 'click here to read jill's full article' in the right hand side bar.

after yesterday's playfulness this is something of an entirely different nature...

powerful stuff. and for once i can guarantee that ain't hyperbole...


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Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One

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colour me shaken and humbled,

(if you want to know more on this issue check out Amnesty's SVAW ongoing campaign)

LB, x

::learn to heal with the ones you're with::