| How long can we pretend for?
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| We’re the land of the free
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| Ask yourself some simple questions
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| Things aren’t what they seem
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| We all need someone to hold
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| We all need to have a home
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| We all need to speak our hearts
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| We all need a little love
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| Each of us has the power
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| To change the course we’re on
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| A fire burns within us
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| Brighter than the sun
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| «We've got some difficult days ahead
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| But it really doesn’t matter with me now
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| Because I’ve been to the mountaintop, and I don’t mind
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| Like anybody, I would like to live a long life
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| Longevity has its place
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| But I’m not concerned about that now
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| I just want to do God’s will
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| He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain
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| And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land
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| I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight
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| That we, as a people, will get to the promised land!»
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| We all need someone to hold
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| We all need to have a home
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| We all need to speak our hearts
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| We all need a little love
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| I declare my insurrection
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| To the home of the brave
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| I will not surrender
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| Until the world is free
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| We all need someone to hold
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| We all need to have a home
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| We all need to speak our hearts
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| We all need a little love
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| «They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me
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| Then they will have my dead body… not my obedience.» |