(A Beautiful Revolution) Outro

[Intro: Various Speakers]

What is a beautiful revolution?

(A beautiful revolution)

A beautiful revolution is when old and outdated ideas

Are replaced by new and better ones

Everybody's in peace, everybody's shaking hands

A beautiful revolution?

The Earth going around the Sun, it's a beautiful thing

(The truth is, revolution can be small

It's in the stillness, and it can be painful and warm

Because it's happening on the inside first

It can't happen out there unless it's happening in here)

(A beautiful revolution is a truthful revolution

A revolution that balances the extremes of

Of inner and outer, light and dark, good and evil

Masculine, feminine, black, white)

(People were able to change other peoples' minds

Without any loss of life and without any shedding of blood)

{That's a beautiful revolution}

{That's, that's what a beautiful revolution looks like to me}

[Outro: Morgan Parker]

And finally, we take us back

The boat and the big house

My body, my thoughts, our words

Our fate, my people, our peace, my people

Come, sit down for a spell

We gather to announce our freedom

Unafraid to turn our backs, and we can bring you

And nobody wants us dead

And we are free to rest and tend our wounds

Give us this day to grieve who we could've been

Give us this day to bless the Atlantic floor

To worship what was stolen

Give us more than survival

Weave fists, glistening with blue magic and black glory

Only roses in our mouths

We pray like this, we keep us safe

We can breathe, we give us breath

And we is us again, amen