The Sounds of Our Time

If you listen you can hear a little child's cry

Sounds to me like the pains of hunger

Listen, you can hear all them big guns fire

Sounds to me like my brothers dying

Listen, you can hear screams down in the street

I'll the bet the heats done come and got him

The sounds of our times ring loud through my mind

Think I'll never get used to the sound (Got to, got to, got to, got to)

Think I'll never get used to the sound

If you listen you can hear the sound of the wind

Choking on our pollution

Listen, you can hear the rain falling down

But it ain't drowning our revolution

If you listen to the sounds, Lord, a mile there underground

You'll hear the man made bombs of self-destruction

The sounds of our times ring loud through my mind

Think I'll never get used to this sound (Got to, got to, got to, got to)

Said I'll never get used to the sound (Say it again)

Said I'll never get used to the sound

Hate, fear, these are the men lost and found in our society (Tell me Jesus!)

War (war), kill (kill), all we could feel

What if nobody would pay their taxes?

Freedom (freedom), peace (peace), just words they teach

In a 4th grade class in school on American history

Oh, the sounds of our times ring loud in my mind

Think I'll never get used to the sound (Got to, got to, got to, got to)

Think I'll never get used to the sound (Say it one more time)

I said I'll never get used to the sound