Living In This City * Over And Over * Shattered Dreams * Even Now * Almost There * Leave Me To Dream * Like A Fool * Golden Days Of Ours * On Fire * No Point In Dreaming * She's Not For You * Lovers Make You Cry * Stage Fright * Devil Takes Control * Lost Without You * Midnight * Marley Avenue * Night Bird * As Cold As Ice * Run For Your Life * Won't Be Able To Sleep * Let It Rain * Walking In The Moonlight * Remember * Movin' On * Find Your Dream * It's A Pity * That Takes Me Back * Ten Years Behind * Take What You Want * Circumstance * What's Going On? * Had A Little Bad News * Back On The Road * Forever Love You Now * Be What You Want Me To Be * Sleep Well Tonight * Certain People * Beautiful Lady * Rosie's Bar * Empty Promises * Riding Out The Storm * When We Were Young * Moochy Man * Oh, What A Life It Is * You Look So Good Tonight * Breaking All The Rules * Another Life * Leave Me Alone * Truth Behind The Smile * Something Strange * 500 Light Years to Jupiter * Suraya * I'll Be Gone * Don't Tell Me You Love Me * She Belongs To You
Recorded at the 2014 International Peace Festival
More than a billion people are homeless or live in slums in the world today. The figure is continually rising as around 50 million people migrate to the major cities every year. Slum dwellings have poor structural quality, insufficient living areas, overcrowding, lack of any secure tenure and limited access to water and sanitation. In fact, contaminated water supplies, bad hygiene and a lack of decent toilets and sewerage claim the lives of millions of slum dwellers every year through the increase and spread of deadly diseases.
Slums built on marginal land are prone to disasters like flooding and pose a high risk for residents. Those living beside busy city roads and railways, on shorelines, river banks and on and around rubbish dumps feel the constant dangers of these unsafe environments. With no legal rights to land, trespassers face the threat of eviction and find it impossible to secure a job or obtain credit or finance. Not having a formal, legal address also prevents people from accessing services like healthcare, education, water and electricity.
In these times of extreme greed and corruption, being poor and homeless is a crime and many vagrants end up in prison. The problem is not limited to third world countries. It occurs in every rich society where the poor are made 'invisible' so as not to upset the well off. The situation is accepted as a necessary evil. It is a simple mathematical equation - if someone is rich, then many more must be desperately poor. It's an economic balancing act. We must face the fact that in this heap of humanity, there must be people at the bottom of the pile. It can never be any different. Not until every nation has a fair and equal economic, social and cultural policy. That's never going to happen. No point in dreaming.
Who needs the sunset?
The moon or a street light?
They only bring shadows
Living down here
And you think it's easy
You've got wings on your heels
You watch from a distance
But you don't know how it feels
Where you don't trust your brother
And you can't take a lover
It only brings trouble
Living down here
If you think it's easy
Then get down on your knees
And I'll trade you places
Any time that you please
When there's no point in dreaming
It just hurts you to yearn
You pretend not to notice
Till you're too numb to feel it burn
So you hide from the sunlight
And you cry in the rain
You show no emotion
Till you're too numb to feel the pain
But don't give me pity
And don't criticise me
That counts for nothing
Living down here
You think it's easy
When your heart doesn't bleed
You take it for granted
There'll be more than you need
When there's no point in dreaming
It just hurts you to yearn
You pretend not to notice
Till you're too numb to feel it burn
So you hide from the sunlight
And you cry in the rain
You show no emotion
Till you're too numb to feel the pain
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