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Charlie Mosbrook - Abandoned Big Box Store

from For A Better Life by Various Artists

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Written late June 2018 while watching the news reports as we learned more about the detention centers along the border filled with children separated from their parents. The news that followed only became worse as we learned that many of these families would likely never be reunited. Condition for the children held by our government continue to deteriorate. ~ Charlie Mosbrook

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They’re sleeping tonight near the border
In an abandoned big box store
Chain link cages blankets for space
They sleep on linoleum floors

They came here seeking asylum
They were torn from the arms of their moms
Now they’re sleeping tonight near the border
In an abandoned big box store

They came here from Honduras
From Guatemala and El Salvador
Their parents did what a parent should do
To escape from the brutal drug wars

They came here seeking asylum
They were torn from the arms of their moms
Now they’re sleeping tonight near the border
In an abandoned big box store

Congress does nothing though they disapprove
For the press they will all shake their head
But political threats trump moral regret
So they save their seats instead

The children seeking asylum
Who were torn from the arms of their arms
Now they’re sleeping tonight near the border
In an abandoned big box store

The President, he blames the Democrats
And demands that we build his wall
We’ll continue to separate mother from child
He could end this with one single call

Still he ramps up his rhetoric to rally his base
To enrage his old rebel core
Now they’re sleeping tonight near the border
In an abandoned big box store

Who will stand up for these children?
And would you stand up for your own?
If they had been torn away from you
For the crime of not having a home

They came here seeking asylum
They were torn from the arms of their moms
Now they’re sleeping tonight near the border
In an abandoned big box store

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from For A Better Life, released December 3, 2019
Written by Charlie Mosbrook
www.charliemosbrook.com
Remastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound, Oakland CA

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Annie Bacon is a songwriter musician in Michigan. She aches for a more empathic humanity + her creativity orbits around this. She also composed a Folk Opera.

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