In My Life - Richie Havens

So I told him that he'd better shut his mouth And do his job like a man And he answered Listen Father I will never kill another Thinks he's better Than his brot

Say it isn't so that the world must choose again Well who is foe and who is friend I can't believe it say it isn't so That the world must choose Here we are win

We all know now that somewhere The weather is something that is right Someone there that keeps all from knowing We all feel that some day we will finally win th

We'll be fighting in the streets With our children at our feet And the morals that they worship will be gone And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgment of al

He has religion with no compassion To make decisions a very passion He's got his yacht he's got his mansions He's got his servants he's got expansion They keep

My love so dear as this life you are to near Your kiss So clear as the crystals of the sea Please save me I am falling here I am lost and alone And angel weeps

Say I will carry you through the hurricane waters And I'll remember you in the blue skies Say I will carry you through the hurricane waters And I'll remember yo

Somewhere there is a key It is laid behind the golden trail To open even me even for the last fires glow Somewhere there is a door It is closed forever more All

I've been waiting for something to happen For a week or a month or a year With the blood in the ink of the headlines And the sound of the crowd in my ear You mi