Weekly Ludi #25
Weekly Ludi #25. Hurricane Ida reminded me of this oddly prescient tune we (the Soft War songwriting duo of myself and Greg Kutcher) recorded back when Katrina was starting to bear down on NOLA. It’s kind of a stompy Folk Rock song with oddly optimistic lyrics, a couple clear nods to Led Zeppelin, and is the only song in my current catalog that features a banjo.
https://soundcloud.com/john-ludi/there-is-the-wind-by-soft-war
These times they test your patience,
these times they test your will.
These days you start to wonder
if we can climb that hill.
Seems like the levee's breaking,
seems like the die is cast,
like today's fading sunset
might just well be the last.
But I keep hoping and I keep praying.
Those vultures circle closer,
that river's running red.
Those bombs fall from the heavens
on fields of smoke and lead.
Some dark portents are looming
over earth so choked and strained,
some hollow haunted feeling
in the hearts of the tired and pained.
But I keep hoping and I keep praying.
(C) There is the wind, there is the sun, there is the rain.
There is the spark of life, the womb, there is the grain.
There is the will to grow, forever, evermore.
The spirit and the word, the world will be restored.
Illusions cannot blind you,
mere shadows can't obscure
the hearts of those committed,
when the will and thought are pure.
Those lies that power's speaking
are speeches to an empty room,
their folly and their flavor
are dust in an abandoned tomb.
So I keep hoping and I keep praying.
There's not one wave that can submerge the will to be.
There's not one war that can consume a soul that's free.