Song for the Revolution
I opened my eyes slowly in the morning light
And I fell down on my knees to pray
I saw the rage flaring in a mother’s eyes
Who’d seen her children blown away
And I prayed when
When will the bullets end
When will this sickness stop and a new earth begin
When will the people see
Lord when will they stand
Cause I heard heaven’s on the side of the revolution
I saw the greatest mind of my generation lost
To chemicals in the schools sold in the parking lots
I saw a government refuse to talk
To the protesters who were picketing on their sidewalks
And they screamed when
When will the bullet end
When will this sickness stop and a new earth begin
When will the people see
Lord when will they stand
Cause I heard heaven’s on the side of the revolution
And I broke down when that news came on
The lights of that TV and the media’s sad song
Well we go on
Because we’re stronger than Washington or the Pentagon
And I can see it in my mother’s eyes
In the vibrations I feel on the street
The saints they said the savior did rise
They felt him
They heard him speak
And she said, “There will be peace someday”