After watching interviews with spouses of career military members, one interview inspired me to write the song Elijah, about the partner of a soldier. Each night, after the children went to bed, she left a light on above the back porch. She spoke to her husband through this light while he was away on his third tour of duty, expressing her hope for his safety. The home front is often as hard to bear as the war front, as revealed in the chorus: “We are the broken hearts of peace."
JOY BROOKS - LEAD AND HARMONY VOCALS, PERCUSSION
FREDRICK BROOKS - ACOUSTIC GUITAR
ROBBIE GUNWALD - KEYBOARDS, BASS
CHRIS PEZZARELLO - DRUMS
Lyrics
Elijah
There’s a light on my soldier
Holds a silence - we share
Oh Elijah come home
Your daylight is here
On they dark road, you travel
Truth is blind - unseen
Oh Elijah my love
It’s a cruel world we must leave
Chorus
We are the battle, that no one can see
We are the broken hearts of peace
From these shadows that bind us
I cry out your name
Oh Elijah my heart aches
For the memories of our days
Chorus
Oh Elijah
Oh Elijah
Oh Elijah
©Fredrick Brooks
