DarkEnergyMatter
Sing Free
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Credit: Afghanistan Matters from Brunssum, Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Girls have been blocked from
receiving an education.
Credit: Alejandro Chicheri/World Food Programme, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Show your face to me
Want you to be free
Sing me your song
God knows it ain’t wrong
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Sing free
Sing free
Sing free
For you and me
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Let your voice fill the air
Men may come we won’t care
Can’t lock you in a cage
Time for change turn the page
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Sing free
Sing free
Sing free
For you and me
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Don’t be silent any more
Tell the men there’s the door
Hear me sisters hear my call
Be brave can’t kill us all
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Sing free
Sing free
Sing free
For you and me
Show your face to me
Want you to be free
Sing me your song
God knows it ain’t wrong
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Sing free
Sing free
Sing free
For you and me
Credit: Rehmat Durrani - Journalist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Taliban man beating women.
Credit: RAWA, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
© Copyright 2024 DarkEnergyMatter Music. All rights reserved. Words and music by DarkEnergyMatter. Composed September 16, 2024 at the Sierra Mountain Studio. All tracks recorded at the Sierra Mountain Studio in September 2024.
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Sierra Mountain Studio tracks recorded, mixed, and produced by DarkEnergyMatter. Final mix completed October 2, 2024. Mastered by DarkEnergyMatter Music. Released October 2, 2024.
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On 21 August 2024 the Afghanistan Ministry of Justice issued a new law The Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Law. This law (see examples below) takes women back to the Middle Ages. Such laws against women have no place in this century, or any century. I urge the brave women of Afghanistan to resist these unjust and discriminatory laws. Women should be able to receive an education, and speak and sing freely. This law misses the point---women are not the problem for speaking or singing in public, and not covering their bodies from head to toe---it is the men who are the problem.
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There is a beautiful allegory I once heard that is relevant. Humanity is like a dove. The two wings of the dove represent gender. The males are one wing, and females the other wing. The dove cannot fly properly without both wings working together, equally.
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You can learn more about the status of women in Afghanistan and support positive action for women in Afghanistan by checking out and supporting the Malala Fund.
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CD cover designed by DarkEnergyMatter. CD cover photograph by Arnesen, CC BY-SA 2.0.​
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ISRC: QZPLQ2400013
ISWC: T-327.838.810-2
BMI Work No.: 69591971
