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A never-before-released track from Escape the Clouds' upcoming fourth album. A father flees to safety with his young daughter, escaping their destroyed city on a refugee airship.

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Verse 1
The old cargo ship groans beneath the weight of a hundred refugees and their war-torn souls.
Huddling together deep inside its cold belly, my little one, we couldn't be more alone.

My battle is lost, but our war could still be won, if I can get you to safety without coming undone.
In my ears the gunfire still rings. Close your eyes and dream of better things.

Chorus
You can go to sleep. I'll be here while you dream, here among the clouds, my sweet little darling
You can go to sleep. I'll be here while you dream, here among the clouds, my sweet little darling

Verse 2
Between towers of smoke we climb with the eagles, riding the heat from the fires below.
Someday you'll be old enough to understand why we can never return to our home.

Chorus

Bridge
We are the dirt beneath elephants' feet, trampled beneath ambitious deceit.
Our house bombed to dust in the dead of night. I pulled you from the ashes by lantern light.
The longer you rest, the longer I can keep you from asking where mother now sleeps.
She's buried in the wreckage of our old life, but in you she'll always be at my side.
She's in your black curls and your brown eyes, the point of your chin and that disarming smile.
You're all I have left of her, the best of us both. In you lies our future, what's left of my hope.

Chorus x2

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from A Hunger for Peace | A Fundraiser for Ukraine, released March 4, 2022
Music, Production, and Lyrics by Mark Rossmore

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