Name: Dancing Skeletons (of Macina)
Duration: P00H05M24S
Description: Based on the book Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, by Kathy Dettwyler. Adapted by permission.

Dancing Skeletons (of Macina)

from Disturbing the Universe by Mike Vieira

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Based on the book Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, by Kathy Dettwyler. Adapted by permission.

lyrics

Spoke to a man from another land
a land so very far away
Asked him of the sickness and hunger of his people
this is what he had to say

“You never get used to it really
you learn to accept it
come to expect it,
but you never get used to it really
you learn to accept it
come to expect it”

Spoke to a mother in Mali
asked her of the children she’d had
“Three are living, but four have died,” she said as she cried,
but tried not to show that she was sad

You never get used to it really
you learn to accept it
come to expect it,
but you never get used to it really
you learn to accept it
come to expect it

Is this the way it should be?
What does it mean when somebody suffers?
I don’t know,
but it still matters to me
I don’t have the power to change the world,
but I can lend a helping hand
and I’m grateful for all that I have
when I remember

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from Disturbing the Universe, released December 15, 2017
Mike Vieira: vocal, guitars
Sabrina Lynch: vocal
ji eff/cristale: arrangement

Music & lyrics by Mike Vieira

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Mike Vieira San Francisco, California

Singer, musician and songwriter from the San Francisco Bay Area. Disturbing the Universe, 2017, is my 4th album.
I also released Out the Window, solo, in 2009 and Mars on the Horizon and Magus Orbis Terrae Hereditas with Moth in 2013/2014.

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