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Sammy Miller

from Force Field for Good by Barry Lane

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Sammy Miller
Sammy Miller sat on me
back in 1963
when I made fun
of his funny shirt.

Why I said it
I don’t know.
It was mean.
It was low.
I watched his teardrops
fall into the dirt.

Words live on as echoes
inside a heart and mind.
Pain and kindness tumble
through the years.

Your story changes me.
My story changes you.
Let words of love
echo through our tears.

I’m not sure why
we picked on him
perhaps it was
his goofy grin
or the way
his hair looked in the rain.

He had a pointy
little nose.
He didn't wear
the normal clothes.
But we were wrong
to call him unkind names.

Words live on as echoes
inside a heart and mind.
Pain and kindness tumble
through the years.
Your story changes me.
My story changes you.
Let words of love
echo through our tears.

I saw him last week
on Facebook.
He still had
that haunted look.
40 years.
He had 13 friends.

I could see it
in his eyes
that he still
believed our lies.
When does a bully’s taunting
ever end?

Words live on as echoes
inside a heart and mind.
Pain and kindness tumble
through the years.

Your story changes me.
My story changes you.
Let words of love
echo through our tears.

When I look back
I'm so ashamed
of what I said.
I take the blame.
I wish I could
have been a better me

I’m kinder now.
I realize
my words live on
in others’ eyes.
I’m not the me
I was in ’63.


Words live on as echoes
inside a heart and mind.
Pain and kindness tumble
through the years.

Your story changes me.
My story changes you.
Let words of love
echo through our tears.

Words change
you --
you’re changing me.

Echo love.

Words change
me --
I’m changing you.

Echo love.

credits

from Force Field for Good, released March 15, 2014
Words and music by Barry Lane and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Violin by Joel Grainger

Background vocals by Jessie Lane

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Barry Lane Vermont

I write songs about kindness for children and songs about hope and justice for adults.

I love Pete Seeger, and believe, as he did, that a single song can help change the world by uniting hearts and minds.


We are the mixed fruit of one tree,

Live in peace and unity.

Forget the old
embrace the new,

Less me, me, me,
more

You, you, you.

For now is the New Day. ... more

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