Lyrics & Poems

The Songs, Poems and Writings of Maurice Allen Lee

A Symphony of Brotherhood

By M. A. Lee and S. Beuting, (Melody/“America the Beautiful“)
Duisburg, 22.01.2021

A Symphony of Brotherhood
Unending Melody
Hearts and minds in harmony
Still freedom our Refrain

A Symphony of Brotherhood
A new song we will sing
With ears that hear and eyes that see
Let our voices Ring

Our hearts and minds in harmony
Let our voices ring
A new song we will sing

All of You

What can I give you when you gave everything to me
You took my broken heart und you mended every piece
You got the Kind of Lovin I see only in my dreams
I just want one thing And thats All of You

I will never leave you I’ll always be there
When you wake up in the morning with the sunlight in your hair
If I had much money I would give it all to you
I just want one thing And thats All of You

Ref

I want All of You
Give me All of You
I just want one thing And thats
All of You

Bridge

Theres something about you I just cant explain
I just want one thing And thats All of You

Solo

Christians

2020

Dropping Bombs on other people
Plundering foreign Lands
Standing Idylly by and watching
Children die in their mothers hands

Go to church on Sunday
Sleep until offering time
Give a dime and sing in chime
We are Christians

Armed with automatic weapons
We say we trust in god
To love our fellow man as brother
Mere words or just a fassad ?

Five-hundred years hard labour
Was the sentence for being black
No records were kept no amount of the debt
Owe no man anything it says to the Christians

Yes we cheat on our taxes
And hide it wherever we can
How else can we pay for our mansions
And afford our decadence ?

Oh we claim to know holy scriptures
But that's more fiction than fact
Still we feel we deserve and poccess the nerve
Pat ourselves on the back Sunday Christians

Thomas Jefferson spawned eight children
With a black slave woman
Is this not then considered perversion
For they counted her less than human ?

And where are the names of the people of color
Who came with Colombus aboard the Mayflower ?
Constitutional Rights excluded
Promises remain unfullfilled

We had no representation
For the Independence Declaration
From Dred Scott to Emmet Till
No forty acres and still no mule

Oh oh what did he say
Was it something about being „gay" ?
Now you can forgive almost anything
Even murder of Abel by Cain

And though it is written God loved the whole world
In John Chapter three verse sixteen
However we never forgive this one thing
And one day a week we are Christians

Duisburg on My Mind
11.04.2021

German Lyrics by Maurice Allen Lee
Original Lyrics: Carmichael
Original Titel: Georgia on My Mind

Refr 1. Duisburg Duisburg
Oh wie dein Licht scheint
Wie ein Stern am Himmel
Funkelnd über dem Rhein

Refr 2. Duisburg Duisburg
Ich höre deinen Herzschlag
Wie ein schöner Song
den man immer singen mag

Refr 3. Duisburg Duisburg
Bei Tag und bei Nacht
Da ist immer wat los in der
Riesenhafenstadt

Br Ein bisschen schmuddelig ein bisschen verdreckt
Schimanski sagte es ganz direkt
Doch die Menschen sind freundlich und haben Respekt
Drum find' ich es so wunderschön hier
Wunderschön hier

Refr 3.
4 T Piano
4 T Scattin

Br An der Mündung der Ruhr in den Rhein liegt
Duisburg das Tor zum Ruhrgebiet
Auf der Fußgänger-Achterbahn Tiger & Turtle
Oh wat en schöner Ausblick
Oh wat ne schöne Aussicht

Refr 1
Refr 2 b
Refr 3 b
Duisburg

How Long Has It Been ?
23.05.2021

How Long has it been since Woodstock ?
How long has it been since Kent State* ?
How Long has it been since Selma* ?
How much longer will it take ?
When was the Emmancipation Proclamation ?
Why did John Brown give his life to set me free ?
Never forget the lessons of Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull was fighting for you and me
They despised the General Othello
How could the Queen love this black "beast" ?
It was known that rage was his weakness
His own destruction and this innocent thing
"Turn around, turn around and repent" they say
"Start going the other way"
But now that we're back where we started again
We've been going in circles my friend
How long has it been since Roosevelt said:
"This is the war to end all war's"
But more than you can count on two hands
Is the number there has been since then
Sometimes I forget to kiss my wife
And even to hug my kids
But I never thought there would come a day
I would ask "How long has it been" ?

Footnote:

"Kent State"
Kent State University in Ohio (USA) was the scene of student demonstrators shot and killed by the Police and army under the Nixon Administration in the 70's. (See also: "Four Dead in Ohio" by Niel Young)
"Selma"
The City of Selma Alabama (USA) was the scene of black demonstrators led by Martin Luther King being beaten and killed during Civil Rights demonstrations in the 60s under the Johnson Administration.

I Bless the Year

By Maurice Ąllen Lee
(For Daughter Glorias' Birthday)

I bless the year you came to Earth
To make our hearts softer
To fill up our lives with mirth
And say „Hey, Love one another"

There can only be one you
There can never be another
And I would say the very same
Of your sisters and your brother

I always will recall with joy
Your mischievous childish laughter
Fall on your nose then come up smiling
Somewhat like your father

Dear, I never wanted to depart
And leave you feeling like a loner
But Im proud that you got through it all
The battle has made you stronger

So may the songs of praise we used to sing
In times of stormy weather
lift you up and in your heart ring
Both now and everafter

Keinen Frieden

Ich finde keinen Frieden hier in meinem Herzen
Auch wenn der König des Friedens hineinkehrte als ich Kind war
Was ich denke Ja auch was ich fühle sind oftmals zweierlei
Einerseits „ brennt alles nieder“ Anderen sagen „ a change will come"
Und so geht es mir immer weiter mal auf und dann mal ab
Auch in Bezug auf rationales Denken doch Ich finde hier keinen Frieden
Und behaupte ich zu wissen nicht nur Dinge zu glauben
Denn Wunder habe ich gesehen Und zwar mit eigenen Augen
Zwischen Überfluss und Überdauern Mauern im Kopf und in Magen
Auf Besuch im Garten versucht verflucht Warum gibt es hier keinen Frieden
Die Welt hat sich nicht geändert Trotz Epidemie und Plage
Stattdessen drehen sie sich umher immer mehr und immer gewagter
die Größen Firmen verfugen über mehr Rechte als wir die kleinen Menschen
Darum können sie mit ein Lächeln im Gesicht „Nächstes Jahr wird besser “, sagen
Nachts , nach verzweifeltes Beten und Tränen Lege ich mich endlich mal hin
Doch Schlafen kann Mann dass wirklich nicht nennen Mein Kampf geht weiter
Ich hab immer noch eine leise Hoffnung Gottes Himmelreich zur erlangen
Doch solange der Feind unbenannt bleibt, Weiß ich ,finde ich Keinen Frieden

On forgetting the past
05.06.2021

"Forgetting all the past is like driving down the road without ever
looking in the rear-view mirror. But its also very dangerous to always
be looking in the rear-view mirror without regard for the road ahead"

Victims of Ourselves

By Maurice Allen Lee / 01.01.2021

The warm cloak of silence must be discarded
Let the cold winds of truth pierce our hearts
All that we see cannot be disregarded
We are Victims of Ourselves

ANC CIA KGB MOSSAD
FBI REVOLUTIONARY GUARD masquarade as a fairy tale
Still to me it seems to be
We are Victims of Ourselves

Nobody forced me to eat that stuff
That made me so obese
There were other simple things
Like rice und greens und beans

Its called „ The Majesty of Choice"
Of Liberty and Speech
Standing empty in“ The Land of Plenty „
As Victims of Ourselves

The Hutus blame the Tutsi
The whites blame the blacks
The Jews blame the Germans
The East blames the west

Nairobi blames Tiagra
The North blames the South
Karl Marx vs. Adam Smith
But we are Victims of Ourselves

Some should be praying down on their knees
Instead of demonstrating out in the street
But being less intetested in souls than in sales
We are Victims of Ourselves

Confusing abundance with excess
Success becomes oppression
But theres no going back to the former
We are Victims of Ourselves

What Color Is the Soul ?
For Georg Floyd
02.06.2021

What color is the soul ?
Is it red black yellow or blue ?
Is it striped or paisley or beige or green
Made out of gold silver and glue ?

How will we know who is who
Up there in that great unknown
How will I recognize you up there
Where the soul has no hue ?

What color is the soul ?
I really would like to know
Its a stupid question I guess
Since noone really knows

White is the color of this page
that Im writing upon
And black are the letters being scribbled out
To get the message to you

Ive got my work cut out for me
A journey few have tried
To find out the color of the soul
And to ask the question "why" ?

Walls in your head

A wall first begins as a thought
Deep in the minds of the human

It is formed into words by the sound of the lips
And then by the hand it is written

Its nails are the fears of the other
Unfounded in hysterias cement

Falsehood is the firm foundation
Upon which it must be built

And the higher the wall
the deeper the hole must be

Ignorance must be in abundance
Mixed with inability to think

It must be painted with false promises
And fenced in with belief

Hoisted up by useful idiots
forbidden must they to speak

Of the deception being erected
Before their very eyes to see

And when it is finally finished
With the pieces of families torn apart

We'll call a Parade on each side of the street
And chant loudly " tear down this wall "