Even If It Takes a Lifetime

We gotta tell the world

We gotta push back hard

'Cause in the last long mile

We're gonna walk the hardest yards

We gotta educate

We gotta pass it on

We gotta stand up straight

We gotta stand up strong

That angry beast from the underground

When you see it, gotta shoot it down

We're never gonna make the world better till it's gone

Every child is born

With an open heart

He don't care about colour

till daddy marks his part

Then history repeats the twist

He's taught to fear the differences

By the time he's a man

He knows how to hate

We been a long time waiting for the change to come

Hold on, hold on

'Cause even if it takes a lifetime to right the wrongs

We've gotta hold on

We gotta drown 'em out

When they scream and shout

If they stoke the fire

We gotta stamp it out

Call it out when it shows its face

And knock it down in every place

We gotta stand together until it's done

Everyone

We been a long time waiting for the change to come

Hold on, hold on

'Cause even if it takes a lifetime to right the wrongs

We've gotta hold on

How many times around the Sun

Before this mad disease is gone, gone, gone

We've gotta made this land a place for everyone

Everyone, till it's done

We been a long time waiting for the change to come

Hold on, hold on

'Cause even if it takes a lifetime to right the wrongs

We've gotta hold on

We been a long time waiting for the change to come

Hold on, hold on

'Cause even if it takes a lifetime to right the wrongs

We've gotta hold on

Hold on

Hold on