The Center’s Behind the Mask event featured the debut of Keep Her Safe, an original song by Sherrie Scott. Sherrie wrote the song specifically for the Center on Domestic Violence and dedicated it to the Center’s work in ending violence against women.
Sherrie Scott and her husband Chip Frye and have been developing a documentary series and advocacy campaign called Ending Violence Against Women Worldwide. While they were filming their present documentary in Uganda last summer, they met with the Uganda Women's Media Association and Mama FM (the only all women radio station in Africa) and agreed to partner with them on this project. This song, "Keep Her Safe," was originally inspired by them along with all the other amazing women and girls they met and worked with in the villages. When Sherrie and Chip heard Barbara Paradiso of the Center on Domestic Violence tell her moving story about one woman’s abuse in Colorado, their work on the song had just begun. That's when they realized there was definitely some synchronicity and approached the Center about writing this song for them. Sherrie says it was a joy and an honor to create this song, which is dedicated to The Center on Domestic Violence and ending violence again women worldwide.
Sherrie is a professional singer/songwriter, actress and filmmaker. She is vice-president of Awareness Media, a humanitarian film company producing social change media. Their current documentary is "The Price of Anything; Preventing the Killing of Humanitarian Aid Workers.”
Until November 15, each person who donates $50 or more to the Center will receive a free CD of the song. Please click here to donate now.
KEEP HER SAFE
Words and music by Sherrie Scott
If you could see her like that
Maybe you’d understand
She is just one helping hand
Away from a chance
If you could see her like that
Maybe then you’d know
She is the horse and the plow
She is the river that flows
Chorus:
To shine, like me and you
To shine, and speak her truth
To shine, be all that she is
To shine, and maybe that means
Maybe that means, not being his
If you could walk in her shoes
You’d never look away again
You’d ask what can I do
Now you have a friend
I you could look in her eyes
You’d see a little bit of you
A bright light in the dark
Just trying to get through
Repeat Chorus
Bridge:
She is the walking hope, gotta keep her safe
Don’t let her walk alone, gotta keep her safe
She carries it all, gotta keep her safe
So she can grow tall
So she can grow strong
So she can go on
To shine like me and you
To shine and speak her truth
To Shine
If you could see her like that
Maybe you’d understand
She’s just one helping hand
Away from a chance
Copyright © Sherrie Scott 2010
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