What Are We Waiting For? It's Time

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don’t know what we’re gonna do

Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop

Moments are good, but trouble never stops

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

Put money aside for another day

Get a little older, got bills to pay

Men who have it all, want to take it all away

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

 

Out of control things are getting worse

Forward too fast with no reverse

I hope that life is better in the multiverse

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

 

Bragg about success and the art of the deal

Knowing folks are worried about their next meal

It’s cruell this ain’t cool, this can’t be real….

right now I can’t ignore the way that I feel

 

Nothing now is as it was before

Friends up north are worried about a war

Worried about people that need a little more

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

 

The future is ours, in the end

We have lost the truth, we have lost some friends

It’s gonna take some time before it’s gonna mend

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

 

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop

Moments are good, but trouble never stops

I don’t know what we’re gonna do

 

What are we waiting for, have you been keeping score it’s time

I always believed that someone would come Stand up to the bad guys

Stand up to the war crimes

on our own now together we huddle underground, don’t make a sound

Dark feeds on fear as souls disappear, never to be found

A false King has been crowned

 

Watching the news, I was worried that someone might hurt me

not for something I did, but for sharing the belief

Everyone is equal, and they simply want to live

on our own now together we huddle underground, Don’t make a sound

Dark feeds on fear, souls disappear, never to be found

A false king has been crowned

 

Have you ever looked into the eyes of the people that we hurt

Or dared to look inside, dig deep

Dig deeper in the dirt

 

Anxiety haunts me, we never thought it could happen here

It’s more than a dream. We are justified in fear

Fear of what’s coming next, history has made that clear

on our own now together we huddle underground, don’t make a sound

Dark feeds on fear, as souls disappear, never will be found

A false king has been crowned

 

What are we waiting for

Have you been keeping score it’s time

 

How do we hold memories, how do we protect the truth

How do we share the story, of a time before our youth

Pass it along, word of mouth, pass it along don’t leave it out

Pass It along with your songs

Pass it along

 

Collections lost, they’re banning books, empty shelves lost to the crooks

Withholding moments of our time. Universities comply

Pass it along Word of mouth, pass it along don’t leave it out

Pass It along, with your songs

Pass it along

 

Don’t let them hide your sorrow, don’t let them mask your pain

Don’t forget tomorrow, the thoughts inside your brain

May the suffering souls memories remain

So Pass it along long

Pass it along.......

 

The ancient people passed it along, all their joy, all their wrongs

Though the text may be withdrawn a melody retains a song

for centuries

Pass it along word of mouth pass it along don’t leave it out

Pass It along, with a song

Pass it along, Pass it along

Let’s do it for love

Let’s do for the people in our lives

Let’s do it for joy

We shouldn’t have to try

Let’s do it for life

I’m not talking bout mine, not talking back you

Let’s do it this time

Cause it’s the right thing to do

 

Let’s do it for the rainbows

Let’s do it for the sun

Let’s do it as the waves come crashing

And you know a storm is going to come

 

Let’s do it for the future

And everything that lives

Celebrate the moment

With all we have to give

Let’s do it for the song

Let’s do it for the music in our heart

All sing along

There is no better time to start

 

There is much more that we don’t know

In the stars so far away

In this space we can grow

As the past slowly fades

I could not fake this, if we could take this

Moment together we shared in a dream

Through time we both travel, years pass us by

Now it’s all brand new

I am deeply fond of you

 

The ancients before us always found a way

Might have been survival just to get through the day

It could have been love like I have for you

Now it’s all brand new

I’m deeply fond of you.

 

My heart had been broken before we had spoken

I didn’t think I could love anymore

My view has changed and it’s thanks to you

now it’s all brand new

I’m deeply fond of you

And the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousSomeday

I was walking with my brotherAnd he wondered what's on my mindI said what I believe in my soulAin't what I see with my eyesAnd we can't turn our backs this time

I am a patriotAnd I love my countyBecause my country is all I knowI want to be with my familyThe people who understand meI've got nowhere else to go

And the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousSomeday

And I was talking with my sisterI said, what's on your mind?"She said, "I want to run like the lion"Released from the cagesReleased from the ragesBurning in my heart tonight,

And I ain't no democrat and I ain't no republican and I ain't no communist and I ain't no capitalist

I believe in one partyAnd its name is freedom

I am, I am, I amI am a patriotAnd I love my countryBecause my county is all I know

And the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousSomeday

And the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteousAnd the river opens for the righteous Someday

Songwriters: Steven Van Zandt

 Just a little too late

Maybe a little too soon

Might seem like fate

Or a random tune

You might know the truth

And still rejoice in a lie

I hope once we recognize it

We take a moment to cry

 

Its some folks intention

To make this life unfair

There are some here among us

Who really don’t care

So we do the best we can

With what little that have left to share…

 

There will always be sorrow

There will always be joy

Doesn’t matter who you follow

Or who you destroy

Give a little bit back

Take a little bit more

Say a prayer to your savior

Send em off to war

 

So complicated

Things have gotten strange

We look for solutions

But these times seem so deranged

Might be time for a rewind

We need a brand new start

We don’t need more money

Just a little a little more heart

Got a message from the station, they just shut down my my line

I ain’t coming back, there is trouble on the tracks

Cause a freight went off the rails in east Palestine

They said it might explode, people leave your homes

 

Governor says we’re fine, a disaster he denied

Left It up to the railroad…

Norfolk Southern said it’s safe, the rain will wash it all away

We didn’t break no rules

We wrote em

 

Tankers burned for days, left a poison haze

in the water shed, all of the fish are dead

 

The rules on rails has eased, to satisfy the greed

of the vanguard group, we got a toxic soup

 

Governor said we’re fine, A disaster he denied

Left It up to the railroad, Norfolk southern said it’s safe

The rain will was it all away

We didn’t break no rules

We wrote them

As the whole wide world starts waking up, the dawn can’t come to soon

To expose the damage that’s been done, at the hands a of a buffoon

 

Some have seen it coming, for a long long time

To them it seemed so obvious, while others ignored the signs

We were told exactly what would happen, we were told what to expect

We should have known

We should have known

And instead of great we fall from grace

Under a broken sky the entire world around us

Turns their backs, justified

We feel we are responsible, but helpless just the same

Lord we should have known

We should have known this game

 

We should have known there would be trouble with the power we gave

We should have known we had no chance for the promises we crave

We were told exactly what would happen we were told what to expect

We should have known

We should have known

And instead of great we fall from grace under a broken sky

The entire world around us turns their backs justified

We feel we are responsible but helpless just the same

we should have known

We should have known

 

We should have known

We should have known 

Waters are rising high in the oceans

We’re witnessing things we hoped we would never see

cruel hearted people

Hurting friends in need

If it’s not too late my hope is in you

If it’s not too late my hope is in you

 

The court of appeals, just gave in

As the darkness just sealed another win

There were safeguards put in place

Now they are gone without a trace

If it’s not too late my hope is in you

If it’s not too late my hope is in you

 

My hope is in you

To celebrate the truth

Though it’s easy to get caught up in the lies

My hope is you

Once the pages have been turned 

I pray we never leave a single soul behind

 

Utopian life has never come easy

We’ve got a lot of work to do just to stop the pain

We’ve got to get back all we lost

before we can make some gains

If it’s not too late my hope is in you

If it’s not too late my hope is in you