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Ashes to Ashes

from Eight Songs by Andrew Dutney

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Words and music by Andrew Dutney
Written in Sydney, 1986

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Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
People are made of such natural stuff
Birth is the miracle death is its end
A cycle repeated again and again
Siblings, parents, ancestors
Learning their names and their places because
Family's a gift wrapped in every new birth
But what of the kinship we have with the earth?

Creatures that creep and that swim and that fly
Creatures that love and that talk and that lie
All are embodied and breathe the same air
Essentially, life is the something we share
Villages, townships, cities and states
Modes of community people have shaped
How has it happened we've let them become
A cancerous growth threatening creation?

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Ready to take all creation at once
Pass me the bottle, I need an escape
Or pass the petition before it's too late
Turn on the TV, I need some peace
Or give me a banner, I'll take to the streets
Visions of power cat their spell and their curse
Now where are the visions of hope for the earth?

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from Eight Songs, released June 1, 1987
Andrew Dutney: Vocal and guitar

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