| I will build a bridge
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| Over the troubled water for you
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| The one that was here
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| Was weak and weary
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| Time had torn it down
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| Started little by little
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| We can meet right in the middle
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| We laugh about it later
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| But it’s time for it now
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| Soon as all the work is done
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| Get old hands in harmony
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| Sit and talk and share the sun
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| I know that you can feel it
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| But it’s gonna take a feeling
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| It’s gonna get a little easier
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| Ohhhh, it’s gonna get a little easier
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| ohhhh, it’s gonna get a little easier
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| A little easier for you to understand
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| I want to build the bridges
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| So that when the elders hear it
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| It reminds us of that spirit
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| That makes us all the same
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| Don’t give up on your children
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| Because of human nature
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| We’ve got virtue, we’ve got vices
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| What you’ve done is not in vain
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| It don’t matter how long it’s been
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| Turn back the music on
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| I want to dance with my father again
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| I know that you can feel it
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| But it’s gonna take a feeling
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| I want to build a bridge
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| Between every sister and brother
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| Father and mother, friend and lover
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| Black, white and other, love one another
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| I dare you to just do it
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| It’s the only way to prove it
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| If I promise to take the first step
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| Will you take the other?
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| Don’t you want to be certain of?
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| Don’t you want to know you’re free?
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| You can come together over me
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| I know that you can feel it
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| But it’s gonna take a feeling |