Let The Healing Begin - Joe Cocker

I’ve kept it inside much to long

There’s no relief

Carry it around just like a stone

Too heavy for me

I had 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 and animal

The people stay behind their locks and chains

It’s a shame

When so many are trying their best to live as one

And the smoke form the fires covers the sun

A young girl is lying in the dirt

Her dreams ended there

Caught in the crossfire 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

It’s time to let the healing begin