“Rumi’s Field,” inspired by Rumi’s words, “Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

Vocals: Ali Paris and Peter Melnick

Rough Mix from the album, BETTER LATE… (release date - Spring 2021)

Rumi’s Field

We glare at them

Through chinks in the fence,

Trying to mount

An insane defense,

Keep telling ourselves

We’ll figure it out,

But we’re only standing

In the shadow of a doubt.

Some rise with their anger,

Making peace with their pain.

At the border it’s quiet,

At least for today.

From a birds-eye view

It all looks the same.

An enemy is someone

Whose story we’ve never heard.

Beyond wrongdoing, beyond right,

There is a field, Rumi’s field.

It’s far past hate and black and white,

And I will meet you there.

Facts are facts, what’s true is true.

But I know different facts from you.

And when this bloody day is through,

We’ll meet in Rumi’s Field.

Justice, justice

Shall you pursue.

But you must love

The stranger too,

The story that you never knew -

Don’t you want to know?

The best lack conviction

While so many are filled

With a yearning for vengeance,

An anger distilled,

And there is a house

I yearn to build,

Out in Rumi’s field.

Beyond wrongdoing, beyond right,

There’s a field, Rumi’s field.

It’s far past hate and black and white,

And I will meet you there.

Facts are facts, what’s true is true.

But I know different facts from you.

And when this bloody day is through,

We’ll meet in Rumi’s field.

© Peter Melnick 2016