Refractor
Walkin' down to Birmingham,
way down south in Dixieland.
I thought that I would stop a while
Take a vacation Southern style
Got some Southern hospitality...down there in a Southern hospital.
Well, all the signs said Welcome in,
Welcome if you're white my friend.
Come along and watch the fights
While we feed our dogs on civil rights.
We believe in segregation...Negroes in one mob...
Policemen, politicians, dogs in the other
Well I've seen travel in many ways
I've traveled in cars and old subways
But in Birmingham some people chose
To fly down
way down south in Dixieland.
I thought that I would stop a while
Take a vacation Southern style
Got some Southern hospitality...down there in a Southern hospital.
Well, all the signs said Welcome in,
Welcome if you're white my friend.
Come along and watch the fights
While we feed our dogs on civil rights.
We believe in segregation...Negroes in one mob...
Policemen, politicians, dogs in the other
Well I've seen travel in many ways
I've traveled in cars and old subways
But in Birmingham some people chose
To fly down
In Freedom
Here - alone with my fear
If only I could leave this night behind and love life again
If only I could turn the tide and turn back the time
Imagining - losing what's real
How I would have needed you to be here by my side
We tore out all emotion and I'm left with the pain
Come, step through my head again and show me where I stand
I need the aim to guide me
Leave the time that made the agony burn
Lift me up again
The road I thought I'd burned suddenly appearing out of the blue
Here and now - that's where I want to be
Released by fears that hold me down,
torpid and drowned and languid...
So come, step through my head again
Show me where I stand
I need the aim to blind me
Leave the time that made the agony burn
Lift me up again, my friend