THE BOY FROM THE PLANTATION - James Dean Bradfield

I knew when I cradled you

That you were gonna shine

As your hand held so tightly

Forever I thought onto mine

When you’d cry I’d wrap you in a blanket

And sing you my songs

All I knew to right the wrongs

As we held onto love

As we held onto love

Victor Lidio Jara Martinez

The boy from the plantation they could not repress

Who strummed and sung to dreams and injustice

Victor Lidio Jara Martinez

I descended into hell

When I lost your smile

But I was always there

Even in exile

In the cadence of the wind

Its throat in your strings

Its lungs upon your tongue

Rivers of us join and run

They join and run

Victor Lidio Jara Martinez

The boy from the plantation they could not repress

Who strummed and sung to dreams and injustice

Victor Lidio Jara Martinez