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Hanging on the Ladder (by the bottom rung)

by Wonderwood

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a song about us all right now

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Hanging on the Ladder (by the bottom rung)
W Routhier (C) 2020


overwhelming darkness has finally arrived
showing us how fragile it’s gotten here to survive
cracks appear under our towering might
and what finds its way through isn’t the light
the lid on the fabled box has been sprung
we’re hanging on the ladder by the bottom rung

forests are burning no one can breathe
a smoldering inferno like you just can’t believe
go ahead and try and call that a hoax
when all around everywhere the very ground smokes
the devil is laughing at the playground he’s begun
we’re hanging on the ladder by the bottom rung

the depth of human selfishness can’t be known
it’s not just ignorance, it’s the nether zone
where nothing can penetrate the wall of greed
the veil of indifference, the well of need
the world’s wisest words have already been sung
we’re still hanging on the ladder by the bottom rung

I’m finally where I can rest a while
I’m finally where I can actually smile
my troubles are minor I can coast down the road
but all around me the world’s beginning to implode
we’re stuck in our houses can’t get anything done
we’re hanging on the ladder by the bottom rung

for millennium the sages and the saints have all said
that the least among us should be moved up ahead
in a world of injustice and chicanery
from the top to the bottom no one is free
our connections weave threads through everyone
we’re all hanging on the ladder by the bottom rung

there’s just two ways that it can go
pull everyone up or drop us all below
rise together one step at a time
become poets at living and see how life rhymes
speak in a common human tongue

or hang on the ladder by the bottom rung
or all hang on the ladder by the bottom rung

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released September 20, 2020
Bill Routhier
acoustic guitar and vocals

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Wonderwood New Hampshire

Wonderwood is musical works of Bill Routhier. It's music rooted in blues, folk, roots Americana and standards, spared down and direct. John Lennon said rock and roll was a chair you could sit in, this music is a chair you can sit in that was made by hand. ... more

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