The Voice Lyrics

I walked into the water

I let it take me in

Let it take me where there's nothing between earth and heaven

I felt the veil lifting

I felt my spirit soar

Then I found myself arriving on a distant shore

I heard a voice in the wild like the roar of a lion

Like the wind ripping down every wall in the night

Like the sound of a woman coming alive

I heard the voice of a prophet and the voice was mine

I saw my people climbing

With stones upon their backs

They were singing songs of bondage

Telling stories, breathing ash

They could not see the sunset

For the tears in their eyes

With the mountains growing golden

They just cried and cried and cried

I heard a voice in the wild like the roar of a lion

Like the wind ripping down every wall in the night

Like the sound of a woman coming alive

I heard the voice of a prophet and the voice was

I heard a voice in the wild like the roar of a lion

Like the wind ripping down every wall in the night

Like the sound of a woman coming alive

I heard the voice of a prophet and the voice was mine

I tasted the metal

I tasted the blood

They tried to keep me quiet

They said they'd heard enough

But one line after another

The singers awoke

With a chorus on their tongues and freedom, freedom rising

They saw the sun shining

As the stones rolled away

Though the world was as it had been

Every part of them was changed

I watched the silver elder

As she stepped out from the crowd

She said, this is what I've witnessed

It all started with the sound

I heard a voice in the wild like the roar of a lion

Like the wind ripping down every wall in the night

Like the sound of a woman coming alive

I heard the voice of a prophet and the voice was

I heard a voice in the wild like the roar of a lion

Like the wind ripping down every wall in the night

Like the sound of a woman coming alive

I heard the voice of a prophet and the voice was mine

And the voice was mine