Question For My Father (From the Island) Lyrics

What do we have to live for?

What do we have to gain?

By walking out the front door

Or dancing in the rain

If we don’t have somebody

Who’s calling out our name

This question’s for my father

Who pursued his dream in vain

If we can be silenced

How can we win?

The old forgotten violence

Occurred before we could begin

To shape some sort of vision

Of a future without sin

The answer’s in the feather

That got taken by the wind

When the knife of ignorance

Pushed into my skin

It cut the bone

Oh, my mother taught me this:

She said of what you do not know

You’re on your own

So I asked my father

He said what he could offer

Until my only question was

If he was coming home

What do we have to live for?

What do we have to gain?

By walking out the front door

Or dancing in the rain

If we can be silenced

How can we win?

The old forgotten violence

Occurred before we could begin