| Look down, look down, you’ll always be a slave
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| Look down, look down, you’re standing in your grave
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| Look down, look down, don’t look em in the eye
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| Look down, look down, you’re here until you die
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| At the end of the day you’re another day colder
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| And the shirt on your back doesn’t keep out the chill
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| And the righteous hurry past
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| They don’t hear the little ones crying
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| And the guards coming on fast, ready to kill
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| One day nearer to dying!
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| At the end of the day there’s another day dawning
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| And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise
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| Like the waves crash on the sand
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| Like a storm that’ll break any second
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| There’s a hunger in the land
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| There’s a reckoning still to be reckoned and
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| We’re gonna be free someday!
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| At the end of the day
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| I dreamed a dream in times gone by
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| When hope was high
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| And life worth living
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| I dreamed that hope would never die
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| I dreamed that God would be forgiving
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| Then I was young and unafraid
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| And dreams were made and used and wasted
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| There was no ransom to be paid
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| No song unsung
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| No wine untasted
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| Who am I?
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| Can I condemn these men to slavery
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| Pretend I do not feel their agony
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| These innocent who bear my face
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| Who go to judgement in my place
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| Who am I?
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| Can I conceal myself for evermore?
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| Pretend I’m not the man I was before?
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| And must my name until I die
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| Be no more than an alibi?
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| Must I lie?
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| How can I ever face my fellow men?
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| How can I ever face myself again?
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| My soul belongs to God, I know
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| I made that bargain long ago
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| He gave me hope when hope was gone
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| He gave me strength to journey on
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| Watch em run amuck, catch em as they fall
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| Never know your luck till there’s a free for all
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| Here’s a little nip, there’s a little touch
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| Most of them are goners so they won’t miss much
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| One day to a new beginning
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| Every man will be a king
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| There’s a new world for the winning
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| Do you hear the people sing
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| Tomorrow we’ll be far away
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| Tomorrow is the judgement day
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| Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in Heaven has in store!
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| One more dawn
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| One more day
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| One day more!
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| Do you hear the people sing?
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| Singing the song of angry men
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| It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again
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| For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies
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| Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise
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| They will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord
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| They will walk behind the ploughshed, the will put away the sword
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| The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!
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| Will you join in our crusade? |
| Who will be strong and stand with me?
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| Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
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| Do you hear the people sing? |
| Say do you hear the distant drums
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| It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes
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| Will you join in our crusade? |
| Who will be strong and stand with me?
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| Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
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| Do you hear the people sing? |
| Say do you hear the distant drums?
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| It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes! |