Wishing Chair - Adagio текст песни

Adagio
Lyrics by Kiya Heartwood
Music by Kiya Heartwood/ Kym Tuvim

In honor of Vedran Smailovic, a cellist in the former Sarajevo Opera Orchestra, he played Albinoni's Adagio in Gm for 21 days, one day for each man, woman and child killed when a mortar hit a line of people waiting for bread outside a bakery in the summer of 1992.


Speak to me
in Adagio
while the mortars fly
the listening dead
that stood for bread
this bow will heal this sky

a prayer for peace
a prayer for peace
how can I play
how can I play
how can I play
while they bomb
But how can they bomb
how can they bomb
while I play

Speak to me
in Adagio
while the mortars fly
the listening dead
that stood for bread
this bow will heal this sky

a prayer for peace
a prayer for peace
how can I play
how can I play
how can I play
while they bomb
But how can they bomb
how can they bomb

while I play