Poets and Prophets Lyrics

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence

Two roads diverged in a wood and I

I took the one less traveled by

and that has made all the difference

And remember to love them until it hurts

Like anybody, I would like to live

Man have to make up his mind

He can't outlive time

It is this unseen power

Which that makes itself felt

But defies all proof

We can't put off, put off, put off

Get it now

The time is now

The time is now!

I feel it even though I do not see it

I just want to do God's will

Various excuses have been used over the centuries

To dismiss these divine messengers

There has been denial because the prophet came from an obscure place

The ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish

As Rudyard Kipling put it so well

The tumult and the shouting dies

The captains and the kings depart

Still stands thy ancient sacrifice

An humble and a contrite heart

There is a place in you

That you must keep inviolate

You must keep it pristine, clean

So that nobody has the right to curse you Or treat you badly

Nobody, no mother, no father, no wife, no husband, no, nobody

Because that may be the place you go to meet God

Because that place has to remain clean and clear

In this truth, in this faith we trust

For while we have our eyes on the future History has its eyes on us

Don't you know I'm a child of God?

Don't you know I'm a child of God?

Lay down our arms and we can reach out our arms to one another

I ask no favor for my sex

All I ask of our brethren

Is that they take their feet

Off our necks

And many are sinning in ignorance

Every breath from my bronzed pounded chest

From my bronzed pounded chest

Poets and prophets

Nothing revealed

Unless first shown

To poets and prophets

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace

Peace is not simply the absence of war

But the work of justice

I guess the greatest advice is to forgive

I don't anoint it with anything

I just forgive

I have dreams

Of two roads

Diverging

Ever diverging

And I

I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference

No country for old

Poets and prophets

We can't become junkies

A world of survival

A world of survival

Of a people

People

People

There is always light if only we are brave enough to see it

If only we are brave enough to be it

A turn of phrase

A phrase that turns

Like proverbs

For poets and prophets

It will forever remain

It will forever remain

A King

A Kimball

A Frost

A Walcott

A Nelson

Mandela

A Marley

A Gandhi

A Mother

Mmm, so many good things

Mmm, so many good things

A Smith of culture

Refining

Refining the fire

Ever refining

The fire

Refining the fire

Refining the fire

And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain

It will forever remain

An accusation

And a challenge to all men and women of conscience

That it took as long as it has

Before all of us stood up to say

Enough is enough

The vision repeats itself

It forgets itself

So the vision repeats itself

It forgets itself

And I've seen

And the vision repeats itself

The promised land

It forgets itself

Longevity has its place

So the vision repeats itself

It forgets itself

What un for know? What un for know?

And the vision repeats itself

What un for know? For know?

It forgets itself

So the vision repeats itself

My four little children

It forgets itself

Will one day live in a nation

The vision repeats itself

Where they will not be judged

It forgets itself

But the content of their character

So the vision repeats itself

It forgets itself

I have a dream!

And the vision repeats itself

At the end of this world

It forgets itself

When God cleanses the earth by fire

So the vision repeats itself

The proud will be burned to stubble

It forgets itself

And the meek shall inherit the earth

The vision repeats itself

It forgets itself

So the vision repeats itself

It forgets itself

I don't know what will happen now

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

The prophets are coming

I'm not worried about anything!

I'm not fearing any man!

My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!