LUKA BLOOM » SONGS
Video Recording
(2005)
OPEN UP YOUR ARMS
Open up your arms
Let the healing begin
For those of us still standing
Let some light shine in
Shine on the hopeless days
Shine on the raging nights
Shine on this slip of a dream
Give us all new lives
Cry and be still
Cry for the stolen years
Cry the bitter tears
Let's learn love songs
Sweet love songs
Songs that don't deny
What has been and done
Songs that throw some lights
On each and everyone
Songs that reach across
Divides and barricades
Songs that civilize
And promise brighter days
Cry and be still
Cry for the stolen years
Cry the bitter tears
Let's learn love songs
Sweet love songs
Songs that celebrate
Though nothing has been won
Songs that agitate
For lives that might be fun
Why not? Why not?
Reach out and be a star
Why not? Why not?
We have come this far
Open up your arms
Let's learn love songs
Open up your arms
Let's learn love songs
Open up your arms
© 2005 Luka Bloom
(unrecorded)
AMPS Studio presents an archive recording of Luka Bloom performing Open Up Your Arms
live from their song writing workshop with Damien Dempsey.
Recorded at the Féile in Roddy McCorley's Social Club in Belfast in August 2005.
Filmed by Martin McCauley for Falls Community Council.
Luka Bloom performs Open Up Your Arms
on Dutch TV show 'Vrije Geluiden' - November 2005
© Rena Bergholz :: Luka Bloom Page