By & By

Mississippi told me
 Don't lament in the sun
 Pretend to love your neighbors
 And register your guns
 Did we forget how far we've come?
 And why do we keep on insisting
 To beat a broken drum?
 Stitch the skin across my eyes
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 I'd rather fall than watch you fly
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 Mississippi hold me
 Keep me safe from the shame
 Sing me songs of hallelujah
 With the hatred in your veins
 Did we forget the price he paid?
 And why do we keep on resisting
 The laws in which he
 Stitch the skin across my eyes
 Make me deaf to all their cries
 Make them wish they weren't alive
 Until their deviance subsides
 Oh Mississippi I
 I clench my fists and toe the line
 I stitch the skin across my eyes
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 I'd rather fall than watch you fly
 Sing hallelujah by and by
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 Stitch the skin across my eyes
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 I'd rather fall than watch you fly
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 Stitch the skin across my eyes
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 I'd rather fall than watch you fly
 Sing hallelujah by and by
 Sing hallelujah by and by
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