Unplayed Piano

Unplayed Piano, a charity song by Damien Rice (featuring Lisa Hannigan), contributed for a human rights campaign to free Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Come and see me
Sing me to sleep
Come and free me
Hold me if i need to weep

Maybe it's not the season
Maybe it's not the year
Maybe there's no good reason
Why i'm locked up inside
Just cause they wanna hide me

The moon goes bright
The darker they make my night

Chorus:
Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody loved goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Lock on the lid
In a stale, stale room

Maybe it's not that easy
Or maybe it's not that hard
Maybe they could release me
Let the people decide
I've got nothing to hide

I've done nothing wrong
So why have i been here so long?

(Chorus x2)

Unplayed piano
Still holds a tune
Years pass by
In the changing of the moon

The mood of the song and the lyrics do create an image of Aung San Suu Kyi in my head, sitting alone in the dark near the window, beside an unplayed piano, and the moonlight shining pass the window to show a silhouette of her: incredibly lonely and longing to be let out...

She's one incredible woman...




"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

- Aung San Suu Kyi