Freedom Road

Freedom Road (©A. Calhoun, 1976-2013)

One of these days, sun’s gonna rise
Things are gonna look different around here
Bells are gonna ring and people gonna sing
And every voice is gonna come out clear

One of these days, won’t be long
People gonna have to see what’s wrong
Got to be smart, got to be strong
If we’re gonna quit passing these sins along

Cause there’s too much suffering in this world
Too much lying, too much poison
Too much pressure in this world
Too much dying in this world

We’re running out of matches, running out of time
Forgotten crimes meet our eyes
Muck in the ocean, smoke in the skies
We see it out there, What starts inside

We’re getting close to the beginning
Getting closer to the end
Don’t you know it if we blow it
We don’t get to start again

Hold a candle, while you might
Any one may bear a light
Got to run, got to fight,
Got to get some sleep tonight

Tell me again about heaven on the hill
Tell me again you love me true
I think I can, I hope I will
Go so far as to trust in you

And I hope that you are not in trouble
Hope that you are never lost
Though if you are, the promise holds
We’ll meet again in the holocaust

I don’t mind my share of the struggle
Don’t you mind the weight of the load
We carry through the lies and poison
Gonna stagger down freedom road

One of these days, sun’s gonna rise
Things are gonna look different around here
Bells are gonna ring and people gonna sing
And every voice is gonna come out clear