Mindstar
Words by Martin and Andy GK and Robin Holly
Music by Martin GK
Inspiration: "Mindstar Rising" by Peter F. Hamilton

Am                                 G
Can anything pay for the life of a friend
                    Em           F
The guilt holds me outside the law
Am                                      G
And my life is the means of a cripple's revenge
         Em                  F
The only world left from the cause
Em                                          F
For the heat from the anger has turned into ice
Em                                           G
In a search for the cowards who must pay the price
Am                                    Em                
And an empty hill watches another man die
              F              G
And a part of me has to ask "Why?"

              C
Is a mindstar rising?
  Am             G
A ray of hope in pain
                  Dm
Will the world we live in
G                  C
Change or stay the same?
         Am          G
Does the end always justify
   F7          Dm
Destroying a regime
     G             Em             Am
When all I want to see is today's fantasy
  F      G   C
Become reality

Can a country so low lift its head up again
A decades dark now turns to light
Is there room for me now on the side of the law
So many years out in the night
For we're fighting a war that just doesn't make sense
If we change to the beasts that we're fighting against
And a drowning man looks to the shore far away
And wills that there might be a way

Is a mindstar rising...

Em    Bm      C           Em               D
Is it fair to ask another when they cannot know my mind
Em       Bm      C                     D
Though I see her every thought and all emotions I can find
Em                                       D
Will she set me free or will I crush her will?
Em                                    D        Dm
Have I found release or am I prisoned still?

Does a land now at peace have a place still for strength
Who will protect this country so new
Is my life still a world full of sham and pretence
Where is the life I promised you
Even still there are promises I have to keep
And dark deeds to be done so that others may sleep
For one last final time I must walk down that way
And then I will know I can say

        There's a mindstar rising
(c) Martin and Andrea Gordon-Kerr, Robin Holly 2000-2001