I Was Here

I've never felt so alive before

Out here together, I realize I'm not alone anymore

I feel a part of something bigger than me (I feel a part of something)

Something bigger, exploding open

I feel my world completely change

I finally feel it change

Hello, Ida Wells speaking

It's Mary, here with Phyllis in Nashville

And? Mary, what happened?

It passed

They did it

We did it

Go on now

Tell me how much easier this all would've been without my trouble making

Not this time

I bet all the white ladies were crying rivers, huh?

Oh, they sure were, but me and mama

We danced our way right out of the State House, didn't we?

Your mama dancing, now I would like to see that

I like to dance, okay?

They'll still stop our women from voting

Same as they do to our men

I know, but I'm so tired of fighting

And so, lifting as we climb

Onward and upward we go

Say it, mama

And so, lifting as we climb

Onward and upward we go

And so, lifting as we climb

Onward and upward we go

I want my mother to know I was here

I want my sisters to know I was here

I want my great-granddaughter to know I was here

I want your mother to know I was here

I want your children to know I was here

I want your great-granddaughter to know

I need her to know I was here