Let the Healing Begin

I've kept it inside much too long

There's no relief

Carry it around, just like a stone

Too heavy for me

I've paid the price

Of standing on the outside looking in

It's time to let the healing begin

A boy is strung out, he's going through hell

His mother weeps

His spirit is broken and there's nothing left

Just a terrible need

And the days are marked by the heaviness of the heart

It never mends

Until the healing begins

And the tension prowls the streets like an animal

The people stay behind their locks and chains

It's a shame

When so many are trying their best live as one

And the smoke from the fires covers up the sun

A young girl is lying in the dirt

Her dreams ended there

Caught in the cross fire on somebody's turf

Hatred in the air

It's a voice that never sings

A winter without the spring

It never ends

It's time to let the healing begin

Oh, babe (Oh, babe)

It's time to let the healing begin, help me

And won't let the healing come down

Try to dig it up, now

Got the healing for you

Let those broken hearts out, baby

It's time to smooth under