
Let the Bread Come Through
[Intro — lone bowed waterphone, two rising notes] [Verse 1 — intimate, low voice] Blue light on the kitchen wall Another convoy, another call They say it's complicated on the news I hold a loaf I nearly threw [Pre-Chorus — drums building] A thousand reasons, a thousand names But hunger doesn't play those games [Chorus — explosive, waterphone answers "through"] Let the bread come through Let the bread come through No one can eat a border No one can drink the news Let the bread come through [Verse 2 — gritty, restrained] A line on a map, a lock on a gate A child doesn't know why dinner's late You can argue till the stars burn blue But an empty bowl can't listen to you [Chorus — louder, communal voices] Let the bread come through Let the bread come through No one can eat a border No one can drink the news Let the bread come through [Bridge — drums stop, waterphone cries between lines] Not asking for a crown Not asking who is right Just open up the road And let somebody eat tonight [Final Chorus — full voices, pounding stomps] Let the bread come through Let the bread come through No one can eat a border No one can drink the news Let the bread come through [Outro — instruments drop away] You can't feed a child With a point of view [Waterphone bends upward, hard stop]

