All Waken Finally to Being Human Songtext
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All waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human

All waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human


I call on the dead
I call on the defeated
On the starved
The sold
The tortured
The executed
The robbed
Indian women bayonetted
Before their children at Sand Creek
Miners who have choked on the black lung
Strikers shot down in the Pullman Strike
And at Republic Steel
Women bled to death
Of abortions men made illegal
Every black killed by police
National guard, mobs and armies
Live in us
Give us your strength
Give us your counsel
Give us your rage
And your will
To come at last into the light

I fear the trial
I fear the struggle
It parches and withers me
I fear the violence into whose teeth we march
I long for the outcome
With every cheated cell

We shall all waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human
We shall all waken finally to being human