We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Lino Print
    Poster/Print

    Oil based print on 150gsm Khadi paper.

    Sold Out

lyrics

The Way is like a little bird
There perched without worry
The way is like a lily
Clothed beautiful by nobody
The way is like the rain that falls
And waters all regardless
The way is like the sun that rises
Upon enemies and others

O kindness is solid stone
O violence is a heavy loan to pay
And I'll pay for everything I take
And I'll destroy everything I make
When I use the measures and weights of stolen days
The sand's shifting

The way is like a little seed
Lost in the dirt of becoming
The way is like the tree that homes
Roosting birds amidst leaves, singing
The way is like a woman
who forms bread with her two hands
The way is like the child who is
Unseen amidst adults’ plans

O kindness is solid stone
O violence is a heavy loan to pay
And someone pays for everything I break
And the Roman peace blows up in Rome's face
And now another round of futile waste
While mercy waits

Dear ones, there may come a day
And may the day be real
When the gentle shall raise their hands
And the proud will kneel
Dear ones, may there come a day
And may the day be real
When the gentle shall wipe the tears
Of the proud on even soil

O kindness is solid stone
O violence is a heavy loan to pay
And mercy breathes like wild horses
Upon a thousand hills with no fences
And law is a thief who takes no chances
Locks himself in a room with his treasures
Sits watching his cctv cameras
And this here is hell as we built it
And this here is a shell of the real thing
And this is a young ruin

credits

from Kindness is Solid Stone Violence is a Heavy Loan to Pay, released November 3, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

David Benjamin Blower image

David Benjamin Blower Birmingham, UK

David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

contact / help

Contact David Benjamin Blower

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like David Benjamin Blower, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now