She Is on Her Way

The policemen have thrown away their guns

They kiss their sons and their daughters and their souls are at peace

No more black boys, black girls, trans women dying

No more reasons that could ever justify their loss

And mothers send their teens out at night

To breathe the sweet summer air

And exhale on the ground

The earth was made for them

The earth is made for them

She is on her way, on her way

She is on her way, on her way

And no one can be silent any more

Every death is a death that my family mourns

We've traded in our numbness and all of our fear

To fight for the lives we now hold dear

And everyone has come to greet the reckoning

The place where our hearts got smaller and smaller

Now grows to hold the pain

The brokenness that leads to change

She is on her way, on her way

She is on her way, on her way

Another world's not only possible

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

Another world's not only possible

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

Another world's not only possible

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

Another world's not only possible

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

She is on her way, on her way

She is on her way, on her way

And when the world we're building is ours

We'll be tall inside

There will be no question as we pray and sing

That we have each other and what that means

We'll finally get to be together

Stare with our hearts at what has been

And find some place of home

And find some place of home

She is on her way, on her way

She is on her way, on her way

She is on her way, on her way

She is on her way, on her way