Robin Rendell's We Are The Clowns

Описание: A protest song from the vaults. This one from 2015. The recording is from my Lockdown Sessions. I wanted to create a new language for the chorus, which is a translation of the spoken introduction. I got my mum's name - Ella - in the chorus. The only time I'd mentioned her in a song. #folksong #folk #original #protest #protestsongs #singersongwriter

We Are The Clowns
Robin J Rendell © 2015

Mother Earth and the Lords of the Stars
Summon the Guardians of the Night
Raise the voices of our Fathers in the Moon and the Sun
Mother Earth and the Lords of the Light

Atu Eyla, oku Ola una Ella
Anu Ohna una Kai
Ahu Eena una Rani Uno oku Eyna
Atu Eyla, oku Ola una Rai

We are the travellers who won’t pay the fare
The first generation with nothing to share
Too many times we have let the coin spin
Gotten away by the teeth of our skin
Now the paint on the wall has started to run
And we are too blinded by what we’ve become
Roll up; roll up there’s a circus in town
We are the clowns, my friends; the curtain comes down

We play our fiddles and watch the soil burn
The new commandments that don’t let us turn
Cradled in science in the hands of the strong
Corporate communion at the heart of the con
Now the paint on the wall has started to run
And the early bird chokes on the chemical crumbs
Roll up; roll up there’s a circus in town
We are the clowns, my friends; the curtain comes down

We steal from our children, give their future away
The children of children who paid for our day
In the bowl of the beggar we see who we are
Smell the blood on the knife but don’t see the scar
Now the paint on the wall has started to run
And we are too deaf and we are too dumb
Roll up; roll up there’s a circus in town
We are the clowns, my friends; the curtain comes down

Atu Eyla, oku Ola una Ella
Anu Ohna una Kai
Ahu Eena una Rani Uno oku Eyna
Atu Eyla, oku Ola una Rai

Atu Eyla, oku Ola una Ella
Anu Ohna una Kai
Ahu Eena una Rani Uno oku Eyna
Atu Eyla, oku Ola una Rai

Roll up; roll up there’s a circus in town
We are the clowns
We are the clowns

© Robin J Rendell