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We marched fifty years and five hundred miles
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From a Mississippi Bridge to the Ferguson trial
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Stepping over bodies of other mothers’ sons
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Singing how someday we shall overcome
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And my heart aches
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My heart aches
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We marched fifty years and so many miles
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With folded hands and complacent smiles
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Condemned a generation to circumstance
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And all we were saying was ‘give peace a chance’
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And my heart aches
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My heart aches
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We marched fifty years and countless miles
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Ignoring the signs with our own denials
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Waiting for some others to take a stand
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And hammer out justice all over this land
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And my heart aches
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My heart aches
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For the children locked in cages
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Far away where no one sees
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For the helpless and the hopeless
EmC
For the homeless refugees
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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For the voices who’ve been silenced
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At the mercy of our greed
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For the prisoners of conscience
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Who speak out for those in need
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
VerseCG
For the victims of the hatred
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They are lying there on the ground
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In the churches and the schoolyards
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From the shots that took them down
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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For the claims made on our bodies
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And who we can and can’t embrace
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For the children of tomorrow
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And the world they have to face
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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My heart aches
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