Show Them The Way

Please God, show 'em the way

Please God, on this day

Spirits all given the strength

Peace can come if you really want it

I had a fragile dream in a gray house in the Hamptons

I'd been there before, singing songs and doing benefits

Was in a room alone putting on my makeup

Like so many things that come to me, the dress came across the Persian carpet

As I fell into the dress, a thought came to me

Into my heart, I have a dream

And a door opened

I turned to face the music

I was ready for the Kennedys

I don't know if it was 1960 or 1963

Everything was timeless, even me

I wasn't old, I wasn't young, I was just part of their dream

A shadow walked with me down the hall, it was Martin Luther King

All in shadow, all before me, overwhelmed by

Destiny, someone said: Sing us a song

There's a piano, and handed me a drink

The room was full of hope, a song would set them free

And I said

Please God, show 'em the way

Please God, on this day

Spirits all given the strength

Peace can come if you really want it

I sat at the piano, stared out of the shadows

I sang the words: I have a dream

He wasn't my old friend John, I didn't know him then

But he smiled at me, and I sang these words

Whatever it takes

Whatever it takes to be free

No, I didn't know these men

But they knew me

It was all symbolic, nothing was as it seemed

They all left us in a single shot but they didn't take the dream

They were there in that house, discussing the future

And drinking champagne, I was just a piano player

The voice, part of their dream

I was thirty five and maybe I was fifteen

It was just another night in the presence of Martin Luther King

I was just a dreamer, I was ready for the Kennedys

And I said

Please God, show 'em the way

Please God, on this day

Light the fire, start it over

Tell the world about the dream

Start it up and make it real

Please God

Show him the way

Please God

Show her the way

Please God

Show them the way

Please God

Back in the room where it all began

My heart began to heal, I believe it

I remember the beauty of the Hamptons

Shadows playing in the Sun

A voice said: The dream is not over, no

The dream has just begun

I spun around to see another shadow

Slipping through the door

And my eyes opened wide: What is this all for?

And the shadow said: Don't forget it, don't forget

What we were fighting for, don't forget it

And I said

Please God, show 'em the way

(It's just another night)

Please God, on this day

(Martin Luther King)

Spirits all given the strength

(Sing us a song)

Peace can come if you fight for it

(Don't forget it)

Think we're just in time to say

(Ooh, and said, oh said)

Please God, show 'em the way

(All in shadow)

Please God, on this day

(All before me)

Spirits all given the strength

Peace can come if you fight for it

Think we're just in time to say this

Set them free

Room was full of hope

Please God, show 'em the way

(I believe it)

Please God, on this day

(Don't forget it)

Spirits all given the strength

(Don't forget what

We were fighting for)

Think we're just in time to say

Peace can come if you fight for it

Peace can come if you try harder

Peace can come, ooh, if you really want it

The dream

Don't forget it, please God

Show them the way