They said, "Some men would be warriors And some men would be kings And some men would be owners of land And other man-made things"
And false love as the eternal flame Would move some to think in rings And gold would be our power And other foolish things
But you who dream of liberty Must not yourselves be fooled Before you get to plea for freedom You have agreed to be en-ruled
If the body stays a shackle Then the mind remains a chain That'll link you to a destiny Where by all good souls are slain
And it won't take long, it won't take too long at all It won't take long and you may say "What has that got to do with me?" And I say, "You mean to tell me, that's all?"
Of three men in a desert wandering One is knowing and two are scared They say, "Time is in the river" But the river is not there
Dry in spirit, dry in body Two will lend themselves to death And in grief, one weeps into his hands And drinks his bitter tears
'Cause it won't take long, it won't take too long at all It don't take long and you may say "I don't know, what you're talking about" And I say, "You mean to tell me, that's all?"
And as I stand before you now I am hopeful in my rage You know love has finally called for me I will not wilt upon its stage
But still smaller than my nightmare Now do I print upon the page? Do we have to live inside its walls To identify the cage?
'Cause it takes so long, why does it take so long? But it takes so long and you may say "I don't really care what you're talking about" And I say, "Are you trying to say, you don't belong?"
I am my mother's daughter But I have seen myself in you It's this blessing that I follow now And so I must speak true
I dreamed of thousands dying It was you and you and you And while the city sleeps so quietly There is something we must do
And it wont' take long, it won't take too long at all It won't take long and you may say "I don't know if I wanna know, what you're getting at" And it makes me wanna say, "So long"
Because grief shall come in measures Only grief alone will know And you'll see it on your family On your own face it will grow
And they'll try to keep you hungry And then they'll tell you to eat snow You know pride can be a moving thing If we learn the strength of, "No"
It won't take long, it won't take too long at all It won't take long and you may say "I don't think this has anything to do with me" But did you ever think that you could be wrong?
At noon on one day coming Human strength will fill the streets Of every city on our planet Hear the sound of angry feet
With business freezed up in the harbor The kings will pull upon their hair And the banks will shudder to a halt And the artists will be there
'Cause it won't take long, it won't take too long at all It won't take long and you may say "I don't think I can be a part of that" And it makes me want to say "Don't you want to see yourself that strong?"
Divisions between the people Will disappear that honored day And though oceans lie between us Lifted candles light the way
Half will join their hands by moonlight The rest under a rising sun As underneath the sun and moon A ritual'd wailing has begun
And it won't take long, it won't take too long at all It won't take long and you may say "I don't know how to be a part of what you're talking about" And it makes me want to say, "Come on"
And beware you sagging diplomats For you will not hear one gun And though our homes be torn and ransacked We will not be undone
For as we let ourselves be bought We're gonna let ourselves be free And if you think we stand alone Look again and you will see
We are children in the rafters We are babies in the park We are lovers at the movies We are candles in the dark
We are changes in the weather We are snowflakes in July We are women grown together We are men who easily cry
We are words not quickly spoken We're the deeper side of try We are dreamers in the making We are not afraid of, "Why?"Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
