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'The Migrant' is the ninth track of the album, from Suite three: Songs of Sorrow

lyrics

They call my kind a swarm
A pestilence of human flesh, a cockroach to be crushed
Why won’t they see me as I am? I am a man
With a troubled past, who lost his friends along the way.
When I’ve seen so many lost
Do you think that I don’t know the value of life?
Do you think that I don’t know?

We came from the same skin
We made our boats and were cast towards the wind
How can we really belong when we are the children of the dawn?
And we will all end in heaven or hell
All to hell or heaven

You draw your boarders
With bribes and lies and ill-advised hypocracy
So you call me a stranger for I am not your neighbour
When Jesus Christ himself was a refugee
Yet you are not moved to mercy for me
You are not moved to mercy

When you find my body on the shoreline
Then I’ll no longer be the man I was
Who killed this one? No-one will say
Better that he die this way rather than live next to me
For we have the right to the comforts of life
And he has no right to disturb us

Goodbye children, goodbye home
Goodbye to the land I called my own
And goodbye to the one I might have known. Ohh

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from Cure for an Existential Crisis, released September 1, 2017
Lyrics, composition, vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards and arrangements by Jelly Cleaver.
Recorded and mixed by Cam Deas and Jelly Cleaver.
Mastered by Jack Allett.
French horns, Jonathan Shapiro,
Recorded at Roundhouse studio and Dimond Road studio, 2017.

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Jelly Cleaver London, UK

Bringer of good vibes and cosmic truths.
Playing guitar from age five and songwriting from seven, Jelly Cleaver is now a veteran of the singer-songwriter circuit. 'Cure for an Existential Crisis' is her debut solo album.

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