Sara Groves Album: Tell Me What You Know Track: Abstraction
Abstraction Lyrics
The girl looks out from the window of the airplane 20,000 feet up in the sky She picks a rooftop in the middle of the town And wonders what is happening inside
The tv in the kitchen flashes faces The woman slowly pushes in the chairs Her neighbors son is fighting in the army She's concentrating to remember where
Who can know the pain the joy the regret the satisfaction/passion Who can know the love of one life, one heart, one soul At two you're at abstraction
The man is waiting for the bus into the city He's grabs a drink slowly reads the Times His heart is captured by a story of a child Around the world/ miles away but always on his mind
A million this a million that A mass sum of individuals A million come/here a million go/there Made up of a million souls
Song Description: ""I Saw What I Saw" is about our experience in Rwanda. I saw so many things there that changed me. Some boys were playing with a ball made from banana leaves. It was January, and memories of Christmas were fresh in my mind. My kids are good kids, and we work on being grateful, but that scene gave me clarity about 'needs' and 'wants'. Another day at lunch we saw prisoners walking through town. Only a small group of perpetrators of the genocide are still imprisoned. 60,000 prisoners have been released back into the community due to the inability to bring justice at that mass level, but there have been no acts of retribution to those prisoners. Rwanda is following the model of South Africa for reparations that says, "Without forgiveness, there is no future." To see that kind of forgiveness lived out is life changing." - Sara Groves
