The Circle of Love          by John Flynn

CHORUS:
Ain’t no love without freedom
Ain’t no freedom without justice
Ain’t no justice without mercy
Ain’t no mercy without love

Fat man talking about bootstraps
While he’s hitting out of sand traps
Thin man scrounging round for food scraps
While the car he’s sleeping in’s
Leaking oil from its valve seals
As the banker’s doing cartwheels
And the DA’s scoring plea deals
As the choir sings Amen! chorus

Politicians flash incisors
As the cops pull down their visors
And we’re sadder but no wiser
As the world we’re watching burn
Will growing harder just to live in
And to find a damn to give in
‘Til we wake up to what we’ve been
Taking much too long to learn chorus

BRIDGE
It’s the circle of love, may it grow ever wide
Until no one is standing outside

There won’t be no either or then
We’ll say both and maybe more when
What was lost has been restored when
What is torn has been made whole
I can feel it every day in
My old bones and my archaic
Deoxyribonucleic
Yeah, I know it in my soul chorus

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