Daw Suu Kyi

from Things Changed by Chad Pelley

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Daddy was a rebel,
fighting with the empire.
He showed her what a man is,
They shot ‘em dead for speaking out.
Her mother was a leader,
Ambassador for India.
Keep it in the family,
no one’s gonna beat it out.
Power to the people,
martial law to lock ‘em down.

Kept her locked in that house,
doesn’t mean she didn’t win.
Twenty years she counted,
Doesn’t mean she wasn’t free.
Found a book to find us,
piano by the moonlight
twenty years later,
no one knows her name at all.
Every prize we gave her,
only opened hungry eyes.
Load her up with medals
never gonna set her free.
She never had a trial
never let her try at all.
Set her free and stalked her,
bought a mob to mow her down.
twenty years and counting
ready for the light of day
But we didn’t help her
busy with the run around ...........
Cyclone tore the roof off
and left her in the dark alone.
plotting by her candlelight
she’d find a way to make it right.

Barred away her husband,
let him die a lonely man.
Couldn’t go and see him,
Wouldn’t let her kind back in.
Kept away her kids too,
Nothing that they didn’t do.
Handed her the Nobel,
She sent a kid to carry it.
Twenty years in lockdown,
No medal’s gonna bury it.

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from Things Changed, released March 1, 2013

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Chad Pelley is an author who'd rather write songs than stories.

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