Lord,
Can you hear me? Can you see me? When I am falling, when I am crying. On the floor. When I am trying my best not be get angry. When I am wondering how I will manage not to explode and break everything in sight. Can you hear me Lord? When I am asking to make the pain go away. I don’t want to let the pain drive me crazy. I don’t want it to creat rage and make me break everything in sight. I don’t want to let it make me be somebody else. I don’t want to be pain. I want to stand up and fight for peace.
Give me strength so I can stand up. Give me courage so i can fight. There is so much pain in my heart. So much pain in my life. They say slavery is over. They say black and white people are now good friends. There is so much pain in my heart. So much pain in my life. I remember the bilge of the boat and our blood in the sugar cane field. There is so much pain in my heart. So much pain in my life. They say nowadays we do not suffer anymore. Things that happenned in the past are far away and dead for good. They say nowadays we do not suffer anymore but look! Today black folks, my family is in pain.
There is so much pain in my heart. So much pain in my life. They say slavery is over. So much pain in my heart. They say black and white people are now good friends. So much pain in my life. Look at my children’s tears. So much pain in my heart. Look at my brother’s endless fight. So much pain.