“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