I started the year by posting this on Facebook, 2 Jan 2023. It feels even more important now. This is a collaboration with Todd Lawrence.
Here’s what I wrote then:
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Hey Friends! My friend, Todd Lawrence, brought a line to our first ever writing session (after knowing each other for decades!) and we came up with this. I miffed a few words in recording this draft last night, but I like what we did. I’d love to hear people singing along to this! It was Todd’s idea to ride the “we…’ll” Stack those harmonies! Most of all I hope it could be used inspirationally to free some souls.
Here are the correct lyrics:
“When All Souls Are Free”
Words & music by Todd Lawrence & Jason Luckett
In this broken world
Your get used to the thought
That our prayers go unanswered
That our dreams are for naught
And all that is now
Shall always be
And it’s only in a child’s dream
That all souls are free
For a child see the world
Through innocent eyes
No false complication
Or logic that lies
And I have no answers
When they ask me
When will the time come
When all souls are free?
Till all are free
Till all are free
Till all souls are free
We’ll never be
With this broken heart
I walk out of time
Looking for traces
Of reason and rhyme
I struggle for answers
There’s none I can see
When will the time come
When all souls are free?
Till all are free
Till all are free
Till all souls are free
We’ll never be
And we’ll never feel real
And we’ll never feel right
And we’ll never have peace
Lie with us at night
We’ll be locked in a cage that we can’t even see
Till all are unshackled
Till all souls are free…
© 2023 Todd Lawrence & Jason Luckett
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“This is a time for resolve, and not revenge. For purpose, and not panic. And for security, and not surrender,” said soldier Lloyd Austin (US Secretary of Defense).
Let’s resolve to free souls, to create peace, so that we all may be free.
Here’s a link to the chord chart.
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