![Democracy - Judy Collins](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284752139403925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 30.08.2004
Record label: Elektra, Rhino
Song language: English
Democracy |
It’s coming through a hole in the air |
From those nights in Tiananmen Square |
It’s coming from the feel |
That this ain’t exactly real |
Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there |
From the wars against disorder |
From the sirens night and day |
From the fires of the homeless |
From the ashes of the gay: |
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A |
It’s coming through a crack in the wall |
On a visionary flood of alcohol |
From the staggering account |
Of the Sermon on the Mount |
Which I don’t pretend to understand at all |
It’s coming from the silence |
On the dock of the bay |
From the brave, the bold, the battered |
Heart of Chevrolet: |
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A |
It’s coming from the sorrow in the street |
The holy places where the races meet |
From the homicidal bitchin' |
That goes down in every kitchen |
To determine who will serve and who will eat |
From the wells of disappointment |
Where the women kneel to pray |
For the grace of God in the desert here |
And the desert far away: |
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A |
Sail on, sail on |
Oh mighty Ship of State! |
To the Shores of Need |
Past the Reefs of Greed |
Through the Squalls of Hate |
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on |
It’s coming to America first |
The cradle of the best and of the worst |
It’s here they got the range |
And the machinery for change |
And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst |
It’s here the family’s broken |
And it’s here the lonely say |
That the heart has got to open |
In a fundamental way: |
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A |
It’s coming from the women and the men |
O baby, we’ll be making love again |
We’ll be going down so deep |
The river’s going to weep |
And the mountain’s going to shout Amen! |
It’s coming like the tidal flood |
Beneath the lunar sway |
Imperial, mysterious |
In amorous array: |
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A |
Sail on, sail on… |
I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean |
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene |
And I’m neither left or right |
I’m just staying home tonight |
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen |
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags |
That Time cannot decay |
I’m junk but I’m still holding up |
This little wild bouquet: |
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A |
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