High Ground

from Prints Of Peace by The Bond

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So, the problem of human suffering
Seen from the high ground appears small
With a stiff drink and the curtains drawn you can kid yourself
There's hardly any problem there at all
Diamonds sparkle in the disco
Glitter ball sheen on all the sins
Outside in the alley the party appears distant
As the hungry and the homeless look for dinner in the bins
Wealth is a jetty
At which a ship of state may more
But when Christ was born on earth
It was among the poor

Yes, we study economics
Got to make the money make some kind of sense
Having heaped it into mountains of endeavour
We knock off all the peaks and spend them on defence
In the ring the wars are raging
To be top dog you've got to have the sharpest teeth
When you've clawed your way up to the top of the scrap heap
You live by barking at all the little dogs underneath
Though human weakness
Is what the power hungry scorns
When Christ was crowned as king
It was a crown of thorns

We can raise a smile by sharing
We're appealing and we really love to give
At least until the cost of caring
Cuts deep into the way we really live
What is our charity
So self-righteously displayed?
When Christ taught us to give
It was a ransom paid

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from Prints Of Peace, released August 1, 1988

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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