Wow – We’ve had letters for Ranjini, cards for Ranjini, photos for Ranjini, candlelit vigils for Ranjini and heaps of events and rallies for Ranjini – but this is a first!

Click here to listen to Babylon Burning’s tune – ‘Break The Chains’ – the first song for Ranjini

“How insecure are we?
Taking away people in the name of security
Since when is a family a real threat
Tell me now do you regret
As you took them away could you look them
Could you look them in the face?”

Thank you to Babylon Burning for this incredible piece of art! We will be sending a copy to Ranjini and the family – and hopefully we can get you to play at her welcome home party! (whenever that is)

Lyrics:

If I had the words to say
How ashamed of this country I got to be
Locking up a woman and her son now
When their only crime was to run away
From the oppression they faced
In their home country today

Chorus:
How can you tell this is the land of the free
When it’s clear for all to see
You’ve been locking away people
Whose only crime was just to run away now

How insecure are we?
Taking away people in the name of security
Since when is a family a real threat
Tell me now do you regret
As you took them away could you look them
Could you look them in the face?

CHORUS
How can you tell this is the land of the free
When it’s clear for all to see
You’ve been locking away people
Whose only crime was just to run away now

Think it’s time we broke the chains
That be holding so many people, today
Risking their lives on the high seas
Only to find when they get here
We lock em up on an island
So they can see who their dealing with

CHORUS
How can you tell this is the land of the free
When it’s clear for all to see
You’ve been locking away people
Whose only crime was just to run away now