Who is Raven’s Child?

John Denver’s Raven’s Child is a song about stopping those that believe greed rules the world instead of the hearts of the people. He states that the drug king, oil king, and arms king are the ones who have corrupted the world bringing pain to the people. Raven’s Child is nothing more than the conscious that lives in all of us. When we turn our backs on our conscious we give up on life and we become nothing more than the drug king, arms king, or oil king. Scarry would believe that this lack of conscious is a betrayal of our souls. It is the confession that greed, believed to be a form of pain, has twisted out of us. It is sad to see that the only ones who truly are affected by our lack of conscious are the children of the future. I believe that if we try to take our conscious back we can begin to heal and take back the future for our children. If we don’t attempt to knock the drug king, arms king, and oil king off their thrones the future will be lost and the world will not change. It will simply cease to exist because we will kill ourselves off. War is not the answer rather it is a way the people think makes change happen.

Ravens Child
(John Denver)

Ravens child
Is chasing salvation
Black beak turned white
From the crack and the snow
On the streets of despair
The answer is simple
A spoonful of mercy
Can set free the soul

The drug king sits
On his arrogant throne
Away and above and apart
Even childrenAre twisted to serve him
And greed has corruptedWhat once was a heart

Ravens child
Keeps vigil for freedom
Trades for the arms
That once made her strong
With nuclear warheads
And lasers in heaven fear does the choosing
Between right and wrong

The arms king sits
On his arrogant throne
Away and above and apart
Bankers assure him
That he needn’t care
And greed makes a stone of
What once was a heart

Ravens child
Is washing the water
All of her wing-feathers
Blackened with tar
Prince William shorelines
An unwanted highway
Of asphalt and anger
An elegant scar

The oil king sits
On his arrogant throne
Away and above and apart
Lawyers have warned him
He mustn’t speak
And greed has made silent
What once was a heart

You know there are walls
That come tumbling down
For people who yearn to be free
Still there are hearts
That long to be opened
And eyes that are longing to see

Ravens child is our constant companion
Sticks like a shadow
To all that is done
Try as we may
We just cant escape him
The source of our sorrow and shame
We are one

The true King sits
On a heavenly throne
Never away nor above nor apart
With wisdom and mercy
And constant compassion
He lives in the love
That lives in our hearts

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