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from PROGRESS by Adam Murphy

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Where is our hero? Where is our saviour?
We need one to answer our prayers
We helplessly wait for our fabulous strongman
To steer us to our promised land

Where’s that and promised by whom among humans
And what would you want them to do?
Who do you serve and what do you deserve
More than what is laid out here for you?

Need some one to lead us, eternally feed us
Our loaves and all wishes today
Someone to believe in who says they believe us
And save us from all of the ‘they’
The one with the vision to see all our phantoms
And vows to sweep them away
Who’ll bring us our scapegoats and let us at their throats
And hide in his emperor’s clothes
Deflect away shame, explain away blame on us
Save us from tax on our brain
Where is our father oh where is our führer
Our king uncle comrade of steel
To magic it simple, when bent say it’s straight
Need someone like whatsit ‘The Great’

Most of those so-called ‘The Great’ were atrocious
With a cold taste for innocents’ blood
Driven by sadistic spiteful narcissism
Empowered by desperate gulls
Did deeds you’d excuse and deny and confuse
So long as they weren’t done to you?

Where are our prophets? Where are our miracles?
Why are there no giants these days?
We just want to get to our heaven forever
Safe behind Eden’s big gates
So where are our heroes? Where are our saviours?
Needed especially
In this day and age

Why what is so special about you and your day?
Isn’t this the age of ingrates?
When heroes and heroines work ‘neath the radar
No thanks to your myths and fairytales
Ordinary curious humans who cure us
And raise us by use of the brain
Plain ol’ flawed humans now nameless, some famous
Forgotten or lauded — they worked anyway
That’s who to thank for what you enjoy
So engage or stay out of the way
We can all be heroes to those in the future
By bequeathing a better place

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from PROGRESS, released October 12, 2020

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Adam Murphy Ireland

Adam Murphy was born and raised in Cork, Ireland, but is a long-time Galway resident after periods living and working in Europe, USA, and UK.
‘Progress’ is his ninth album of original material. Each collection has a discrete flavour and is a set of thematically linked pieces. His work has been aired regularly on RTE and other radio stations in Ireland and abroad, most recently in the Far East.
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