"Still"

-CTF Editorial: June 6, 2004

This is just a great song, written anonymously by someone in 1974, and was recently performed by Alanis Morissette for the credits of the very funny Kevin Smith movie about Christianity, "Dogma". The lyrics are just profound and wonderful.

 

"STILL"

I am the harm which you inflict.
I am your brilliance and frustration.
I am the nuclear bombs if they're to hit.
I am your immaturity and your indignance.
I am your misfits and your praised.
I am doubt and your conviction.
I am your charity and your rape.
I am your grasping and expectation.

I see you averting your glances,
I see you cheering on the wars.
I see you ignoring your children,
And I love you still
And I love you still

I am your joy and your regret.
I am your fury and your elation.
I am your yearning and your sweat.
I am your faithless and your religion.

I see you altering history,
I see you abusing the land.
I see you and your selective amnesia,
And I love you still
And I love you still

Haya...haya...haya...haya...

I see you adverting your glances,
I see you cheering on the wars.
I see you ignoring your children
And I love you still
And I love you still

I see you altering history,
I see you abusing the land.
I see you and your selective amnesia,
And I love you still
And I love you still

I am your tragedy and your fortune.
I am your crisis and delight.
I am your prophets and your profits.
I am your art I am your bytes.
I am your death and your decisions.
I am your passion and your plights.
I am your sickness and convalescence.
I am your weapons and your light.

I see you holding your grudges,
I see you gunning them down.
I see you silencing your sisters,
And I love you still
And I love you still

I see you lie to your country,
I see you forcing them out.
I see you blaming each other,
And I love you still
And I love you still

Haya...haya...haya...haya...

I see you holding your grudges,
I see you gunning them down.
I see you silencing your sisters,
And I love you still....
And I love you still....

I see you lie to your country,
I see you forcing them out.
I see you blaming each other,
And I love you still
And I love you still......