| Something I forgot that I used to know
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| Keeps on coming back around.
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| Somewhere in the dark right before the dawn
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| Like a light from down the hall.
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| Suddenly some old familiar music
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| Songs I know Ive never heard before.
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| I gotta play along I cant refuse it I hear the call.
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| Weve all been so proud of our blindness
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| No kindness to share
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| I used to cry for the lost
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| Until I had to turn away.
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| Then I looked inside, past the fool,
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| And found some deeper words to say
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| To bring us together.
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| We can make it better
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| We can make it right.
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| We hide behind the veil of our own success,
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| While were following the rules.
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| Our eyes refuse to see past our little hands
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| To the never changing truth.
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| Freedom needs to speak a little louder,
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| Justice needs to try her other arm.
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| Some of us could push a little harder
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| To sound the alarm.
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| And I see children marching
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| And I hear the drums again
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| I used to cry for the lost
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| Until I had to turn away.
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| Then I looked inside, past the fool,
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| And found some deeper words to say.
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| If we hope and pray,
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| It will come, give it half a chance.
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| Everyone, understand
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| In our hearts and our mind,
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| You know theres nothing left to hide,
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| Were already there.
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| I used to cry.
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| Cry for the lost I was walking away.
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| I used to try to find a reason.
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| Then I looked inside,
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| I used to mind everytime I was walking away,
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| I gotta find what Im feeling
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| To bring us together.
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| Repeat chorus |