Who Will Heal The World
Music and Lyrics by: Peter Link
Piano Arrangement by: Margaret Dorn

Well here we are
Now at last together
Here we are
Soldier’s seekers healers are we
What rings us to this mountaintop?
What questions lie upon your tongues?
Tell me all about it
What Questions lie upon your tongues?

Who will heal the world?
Who will save the children?
Who will cleanser the waters of earth?
Who will heal the world?
Who will stir the ashes?
Who will bring the barren land to birth?

Who will rescue the fallen man?
Mend the broken hearted
Build the families
Give back the dignity
That’s now been taken away?

Who will heal the world?
Who will bridge the waters?
Who will break the barriers
Between man?

Now you know the answer lies with God
But the tasks He gives to me

So send me up to the mountaintop
Send me into the valley below
Send me out into the wilderness
Here I am send me
Here am I send me
Here I am

[Key change]

Who will heal the world?
Who will end the famine?
Who is there to multiply the loaves?

Now you know the power lies with God
But the hour belongs to you

So send me up to the mountaintop
Send me into the valley below
Send me out into the wilderness
Here I am send me
Here am I send me
Here I am

Send me into the broken homes
Send me out into the asphalt jungles
Send me deep into the troubled sea
Here I am send me
Here am I send me
Here I am

Send me into intensive care
Send me where the people are dying
There my brothers will be set free
Here I am send me
Here am I send me
Here I am

[Key change]

So send me up to the mountain top
Send me into the valley below
Send me out into the wilderness
Here I am send me
Here am I send me
Here I am

[ Breakdown section- Choir acapella w/Perc]

Send me into the prison yards
Send me into the heart of danger
Send me out into the battleground
Here I am send me
Here Am I send me

Send me into the broken homes
Send me out into the asphalt jungles
Send me deep into the troubled sea
Here I am

Who will heal the world?
Here am I send me
Who will heal the world?
Here am I send me

I am a healer
I’m a seeker
I’m a fire
I am a healer
I’m a seeker
I’m a fire
I am a healer
I’m a seeker
I’m a fire
Here am I send me!!!

I Want My Life Back
Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

Stuck in a rut
Stuck in a rut
Stuck in a rut

Stuck in a rut
I would break away but
I would probably come unraveled
Nowhere to turn
So I continue to burn
Down this desolate road I travel
Leaving it behind
In my prime
Mad at the simplest of things
Scared of the truth that life brings
Facing the facts
Back to the wall
Losing it all

I want my life back
I don't care what it takes
I want my life back
I don't care how it goes
Give me the chance
To get back in the dance
To get on with the work
To get through the extremities

I want my life back
I don't care how I live
Just give me my life back
I don't care why I'm here
Just give me the time
To sign up to resign
To dive in to bail out
To make choices with dignity

Laughing at the oddest places
Crying at the strangest times
Losing track of life's graces
And headin' for the bottom line
But the soul knows
There is life
There is life (there is life)

Living the days
Just a day at a time
Is no way to get on
With the living
Stuck in a maze
Of such vicious design
With a steady decline
Of forgiving
Howling at the moon
Through a silent night
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Letting it go
Do as it may
Slipping away

I want my life back
I don't care what it takes
I want my life back
It don't matter how I get it
Give me the chance
To get back in the dance
To get on with my dreams
To engender the memories

I want my life back
Show me the way to get it
Just give me my life back
Fear is the enemy
I look to the day
Fear is taken away
I'll be shakin' my fist
In the face of this tragedy

Gonna make what's left of it better
Gonna make what's left of it better
Gonna make what's left of it better

Gonna make what's left of it better
Gonna make what's left of it better
Gonna make what's left of it better

I want my life back
I want my life back

I want my life back
I don't care what it takes
Just give me one more chance
And I'll make it

I want my life back
I don't care what it takes
Just give me one more chance
And I'll make it

I want my life back
I want it I want it
I don't care what it takes
I want it I want it
Just give me one more chance
I want it I want it
And I'll make it

I want my life back!!!

How Are We Raising Our Sons
Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

Walking home
From streetlight to streetlight
Heartbeat to heartbeat
Watching the shadows
Holding God's hand
And knowing I walk not alone

Yet anxious
These butterflies here in the pit of my stomach
Are turning my heart to stone

And the fear that comes over me
On the window, tapping
Chilling me down to the bone
Should never have breathed
Its cold breath on my shoulder
Following...
Following me home

Breathless I wonder
Why is this happening?
What have I done to deserve...?
No! The fault is not mine
They are the ones
Mothers and fathers
People of earth
How are we raising our sons?
How are we raising our sons?

[Interlude]

Passing by
The boys on their lunch break
Whistling and taunting
Courage in numbers
Having "their fun"
With me as I stare straight ahead

Such cowardice
Though I wonder which one of them
Might have presumption
To actu'lly follow me home

And the thought that burns into me
Is that how can any man
Take just whatever he wants?
And why be so spoiled
And so disrespectful
Casting stones
And following me home?

Sadly I ask you
Why must we bend to you?
What have we done to deserve...?
No! The fault is not ours
You are the ones
Mothers, and fathers
Look to yourselves
How are we raising our sons?
How are we raising our sons?

Look to yourselves
Look to your children
Look to the things that are taught
This attack on my innocence
Is the essence of avarice
So look to the things in your thought

Look to yourselves
Look to your children
Look to the things that are taught
This attack on my innocence
Is the essence of avarice
So look to the things in your thought

Look to yourselves
Look to your children
Look to the things that are taught
This attack on my innocence
Is the essence of avarice
So look to the things in your thought

Before all that we live for comes undone
Look upon these
And ask yourselves, please
"How am I raising my son?"

South Africa
Music and Lyrics by Peter Link
Zulu translations by Jimmy Mgwandi

We come from Soweto
We come from a great confusion
We come from the ghetto
We look to South Africa
We look to South Africa

We come from Zimbabwe
We come from the streets of Harlem
We come from a new age
We know where the times have gone
So we go where the lines are drawn

We come from Botswana
We come from a deep frustration
We come from Atlanta
We look to South Africa
We look to South Africa

Ah there I see in the great Serengeti
The hope of our ancestors
Standing before me
I see in the ancient still mountains
And shining blue waters
The strength of Mandela
And still in the shanties of Cape Town

The voices of children sing
"Power to the people" amandla awaytu
"Power to the people" amandla awaytu
"Power to the people" awaytu

We come from Uganda
We come from the mask of slavery
We come from South Central
We look to South Africa
We look to South Africa

And now we look to the slums of Pretoria
To show us the way
As the straw shows the way of the wind

For there in the mood of South Africa
Lies a measure of truth
The writing is there on the wall
Where it always has been

We come from the bread lines
We come from the blackboard jungles
We rise from the confines
Impelled by the hand of God
We look to South Africa

Ah there I see upon Kilimanjaro
The souls of our forefathers
Standing before us
The mem'ries of Medgar
And Malcolm and Martin
Run deep in our blood
The fires of apartheid
Still burn through the tears screaming
"Power to the people" amandla awaytu
"Power to the people" amandla awaytu
"Power to the people" awaytu

We come from Soweto
We come from the Zulu nation
We come from the ghetto
We look to South Africa

Oomzahntsi Africa
We look to South Africa
Oomzahntsi Africa
We look to South Africa
Oomzahntsi Africa
We look to South Africa
Oomzahntsi Africa

Amandla awaytu
Amandla awaytu
Hiee hiee hiee
Ah su gah mahn!
Geen goo bah nee me
Nah gahn gah
Pahn dleh gko baba
Gee ah bongah weh baba
Gee nee geze
Oom zahn tsi Afreeca

We come from the bread lines
We come from the blackboard jungles
We rise from the confines
Impelled by the hand of God

We come from Soweto
We come from the Zulu nation
We come from the ghetto
We look to South Africa!

We Fix It
Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

I don't believe that when we die
All things will be forgiven
I think forgiveness comes
When we fix it
When we fix it

I do believe that when we die
We take our troubles with us
The bad goes with the good
And then we fix it uh huh
Then we fix it

Old bad habits
Doin' somebody wrong
Goin' up places
That ya' don't belong
Cheatin' an' stealin'
An' puttin' on airs
Givin' no heed
To yer past affairs

All for the love of money
All for the love of sin
And if you keep on doin' it
Then you can't get in
Yes if ya' keep on doin' it
No you can't get in
So before we get to heaven
We fix it

So before we get to heaven
We fix it

I don't believe that when we live
We're free to do whatever
For every broken heart
Well we fix it

I don't believe that heaven means
A clean slate for the living
As each mistake is made
Ya' know we fix it

Showin' no mercy
To the tender few
Holding hatred inside of you
Greed is master
Better watch yo' back
Cuz it gets you nothin' but a heart attack

All for the love of money
All for the love of sin
And if you keep on doin' it
Then you can't get in
Yes if ya' keep on doin' it
No you can't get in
So before we get to heaven
We fix it

So before ya' get to heaven
Just fix it

Water
Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

The very same water in the apple you eat
May have fallen as rain
Half-way 'round the world
Or could have been used
A hundred million years ago
By a mighty mama brontosaur
To bathe her baby girl

Omi omi omi
Lenia

The very same water
That is wetting your lips
May have flowed through the streets
Down in New Orleans
Or flowed down the cheeks
And spilled upon the piano keys
As the brilliant Tchaikovsky sat
And wrote his Pathétique.

Did ja' know that
Here on this rock
As we journey through time
We live by the grace of water
For it bears within its essence
This miracle of life
And infuses this life into the world

One part oxygen
And two parts hydrogen
Put 'em both together an' whadda you got
Clean
Clear and cool
Pure water

[Interlude]

Yes the very same water
When you're scrubbin' the floor
May have once cooled a bluebell
In the morning sun
Then swam the Amazon
From the Andes to the waiting sea
Then it fought the Great Chicago Fire
In foiled futility

Water and man
Since time began
Go hand in hand
Yes they do

Yes the very same water
That grows the cocoa bean
And brings the sweet taste of chocolate
To the hungry world
May be the mystery
That carries forth the seed of life
As it brings to pass the life and times
That spring from you and me

Knowing now that
Here on this rock
As we try to find our way
We live by the grace of water
For it bears within its essence
This miracle of life
And infuses this life into the world

One part oxygen
And two parts hydrogen
Put 'em both together an' whadda you got
Clean
Clear and cool
Pure water

Water
Water
Life giving water
We drink it
We swim it
It powers our world
We bathe in it
We travel it

One part oxygen
And two parts hydrogen
Put 'em both together an' whadda you got
Clean
Clear and cool
Pure water

Water
Life giving water

Water
Life giving water

Water
Life giving water

Water
Life giving water

Tear Down the House
Music and Lyrics by Peter Link

Hmm yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (5x)

Once and for all yeah we built it
Built it from a mighty stone
Through heaven 'n' hell yeah we built it
We built it to stand the test of time
All of mankind helped us build it
It stood for all the good we've known
But something happened along the way
Something happened along the way
Something managed to slip away for good

Now we gotta tear down the house
Better build it back up on a higher ground
Oh yeah tear down the house
Tear it up and start it again
But if we're gonna tear down the house
We got to love and guard life
Yeah we gotta change this hard life
Before we build again
Before we build again

Tear it up
Huh huh yeah we gotta tear it up
Break it down 'n' start it again
Tear it up
Huh huh yeah we gotta rip it up
Break it down 'n' start it again

Once and for all yeah we'll build it build it
Build it for the child in you
Build it for the child in you
Innocent hearts now will build it build it
They'll build it for all the world to use
For all the world to use
Once in the past those who built it
Did the things they had to do
(With the highest intentions in view)
But something happened along the way
Something happened along the way
Something managed to go astray it's true

And now we gotta tear down the house
Better build it back up on a higher ground
Oh yeah tear down the house
Tear it up and start it again
If we're gonna tear down the house
We must respect and guard life
Yeah we gotta change this hard life
Before we build again
Before we build again
Before we build again

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
What have we done in the name of love
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
What have we done in the name of love
What have we borne with the richest of dreams
With the wisest of schemes
That has turned to a travesty
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
What have we done in the name of love

Huh huh we built a tower of corruption
Huh huh for a den of thieves
Huh huh in a house of ill repute
Huh huh yeah it's hard to believe
Huh huh we built a pillar of injustice
Huh huh on a cornerstone of lies
Huh huh with a bogotified foundation
Huh huh an' now we can't believe our eyes

It's a shanty it's a shack
It's a flop house it's a dump
For a blinkie in the gutter
For a skeezer for a chump
It's a world of confusion
It's a city of sin
Yeah it's a tower of corruption
An' it's easy to get in

An' we built it
We built it
An' now what have we done in the name of love
We built it
We built it
An' now what have we done in the name of love

We're the architect of ruin
The builder of jive
The designer of catastrophe
The last to survive
Fire is our symbol
Our medium is rust
Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust

The word in the streets is 'demolition'
It's a wrecking ball party
It's a holy mission
So flatten it
Flatten it
Level it
Level it
Bring it to the ground
Roll up your sleeves
An' tear the damned thing down

Yeah tear down the house
Cause the moment it falls
We all will then rise up
Tear down the house
Better build it back up on a higher ground
Oh yeah tear down the house
Cause the moment it falls
We all will then rise up
Tear down the house
Better build it back up on a higher ground
Oh yeah tear down the
Tear down the
Tear down the house!

What Peace Looks Like
Music by Peter Link
Lyrics by Peter Link and Julia Wade

"I want to know what peace looks like"
The girl of Uganda said,
"I want to know what peace looks like"
She's spent her life in fractured war
But now she's stepping through a door
That takes her far from harm

"I want to know what peace looks like"
The boy of the Sudan said,
"I wanna feel what it feels like
I want to have enough to eat
I want to feel my mother's heat
As she wraps me in her arms"

"I want to know what peace looks like
I want to know what peace looks like
My wish, my hope, my dream
A night without the nightmares
I want to know the inner calm
The thread of self-esteem
I want to know what peace looks like
And I want to feel it too
Yes I do"

Oh Lord, the lessons of the children of war
The roar of their misfortune;
The hopelessness that lies before
And still they live to love again

Oh Lord, the lessons of the children of war
The roar of their misfortune;
The hopelessness that lies before
And still they live to love again

Because that's what children do
Yeah that's what children do

And if they can do it
We can do it too
Yes if they can do it
We can do it too

"I want to know what peace looks like"
The child of the ghetto said,
"I wanna go where peace is known
I've had enough of hopelessness
A cracked out mom and fatherless
And the gangs that haunt the streets"

And oh Lord, the lessons of the children of war
The roar of their misfortune;
The hopelessness that lies before
And still they live to love again

Oh Lord, the lessons of the children of war
The roar of their misfortune;
The hopelessness that lies before
And still they live to love again

Because that's what children do
Yeah that's what children do

And if they can do it
We can do it too
Yes if they can do it
We can do it too!

Turn Turn Turn
Lyrics adapted by Peter Link
Music by Pete Seeger

To everything
Turn turn turn
There is a season
Turn turn turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to be born
A time to move on
A time to sow
A time to reap
A time to despair
A time to heal
A time to laugh
A time to weep

To everything
Turn turn turn
There is a season
Turn turn turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to build up
A time to break down
A time to dance
A time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together

To everything
Turn turn turn
There is a season
Turn turn turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

There are times of love
And times of hate
Times of war
And times of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

A time of darkness
A time for light
A time to speak
And a time to be quiet
A time of hope
And a time to let go
A time to grieve
And much time to rejoice

A time of doubt
And a time for prayer
A time of regret
And a time to be tough
A time of envy
And a time to respect
A time to complain
And a time for satisfaction

And when the hardest of these times appear
Rise up seem real transpire
Then it's time to turn turn turn

To everything
Turn turn turn
There is a season
Turn turn turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to gain
A time to lose
A time to rend
A time to sew

A time of war
A time to create
A time of peace
I swear it's not too late!

To everything
Turn turn turn
There is a season
Turn turn turn
To everything
Turn turn turn
There is a season
Turn turn turn

The Times They Are A-Changin'
Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round people
Whereever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Change change
Change change
Change change
Change change

Come writers and critics
Who prophesy with your pens
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Change
Oh oh oh
Change
Oh oh oh
Change
It's a change of life

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you don't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are
The times they are
The times they are a-changin'
Yes the times they are a-changin'
Change
Oh oh oh
Change
Yes the times they are a-changin'

Live In Peace
Music by Peter Link
Lyrics adapted from II Corinthians 13 & Ephesians 4
Additional Lyrics by Peter Link

Finally, my brethren, farewell.
Be perfect,
Be of good comfort,
Be of one mind,
Live in peace;
And the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith,
And of the knowledge of the Son of God,
Unto a perfect man,
Unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

So finally, dear brethren, farewell.
Be perfect,
Be of good comfort,
Be of one mind,
Live in peace;
And the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Till we all come in the glory of one another,
And of the knowledge that we all are one.
So let the love pour forth
To all your brothers and your sisters in the family of God.

Now finally, good brethren, farewell
Live in peace
Then we will all be of one mind together
If we be in peace
then the God of peace shall be with you

Amen