The poorest suffer first (Frances Matthews)
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- Editor: Frances Matthews (submitted 2019-04-07). Score information: A4, 12 pages, 398 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: The Poorest Suffer First
Composer: Frances Matthews
Lyricist: Frances Matthews
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: S
Genre: Sacred, Sacred song
Language: English
Instruments: Mixed ensemble
First published: 2018
Description: Environmental worship song
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Original text and translations
English text
The poorest suffer first
when we pollute the Earth.
The powerless suffer first
when we dwell in our greed.
I feel my lifestyle killing life,
Lord let me be freed, oh.
R.: Change the infrastructures on this land Jesus.
Change the infrastructures in my heart Jesus.
Give me openness to understand Jesus
how you long to use me oh.
I see a fisherman outside Cabinda's expat walls.
His fish are dying in dispersant used to hide oil spills.
His home no power or water but still he sees
heat and seas rise oh.
R.
Change the infrastructures on this land Jesus.
Change the infrastructures in my heart Jesus.
Give me openness to understand Jesus
how you'd have me be oh!
I live in a top ten emittor,
we've not met Kyoto Protocol.
A smoker puffing out while non smokers round me fall.
I'm addicted Jesus help me break these chains oh!
R.
Lord, have mercy, have mercy, have mercy
For climate change have mercy,
forest loss have mercy,
toxic waste have mercy,
extinction rates have mercy,
for glacial melt have mercy,
urban sprawl have mercy,
ozone layer have mercy,
polluted air, have mercy,
marine loss have mercy,
sea levels have mercy,
food waste have mercy,
policies have mercy,
denial have mercy,
NIMBYism have mercy,
greedy heart have mercy!
R.
Lord change us!