How Can Anybody Be Okay With This Lyrics

I'm sick and tired of this song.

We've been singing it too long.

Singing we shall overcome someday.

It's been four hundred years.

It sustains loud and clear.

It's so hard to believe, the outcry and the tears.

Why is it taking so long?

Why should I have to write this song?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?

How can anybody be okay with this?

How is this land for you and me, when we can't run in our own streets?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?

And if we hadn't seen it.

Would they have done anything about it?

Oh say can you see, what you don't want to believe?

We keep working through the pain.

Trough blood stained waves of grain.

I don't ever want to sing this song again.

Why is it taking so long?

Why should I have to write this song?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?

How can anybody be okay with this?

How is this land for you and me, when we can't run in our own streets?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?

We stay strong and carry on.

Singing through this same old song.

Through the night with the light from above.

But if we didn't sing it.

Through our silence would you feel it?

Would you still stand up and fight against the wrong?

Why is it taking so long?

Why should I have to write this song?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?

How can anybody be okay with this?

How can anybody be okay with this?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?

How can anybody be okay with this?

How is this land for you and me, when we can't run in our own streets?

Tell me, how can anybody be okay with this?