[Intro]
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[Verse]
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carol rhodes
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knew that she seemed
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as a sculpture of stone,
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to those who
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grew up living history's end.
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she said "if there's
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something worse
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than not living to see
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what the worth of your work is,
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it's living to find no one's heard
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that you fought for it."
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and carol rhodes,
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well no one ever said that it would
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be understood,
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understood.
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and history books, well they said
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"this is how things always looked.
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it's not to be shook,
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it's not to be shook."
[Verse]
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harold arthur grew up
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fighting for something that then seemed impossible:
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liberation from a law.
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he said "when you're not worth as much
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as the other folks riding the bus,
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you put up a fuss.
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put your life above some law."
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and harold's blood,
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no one ever said that it would be understood,
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understood.
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and carol rhodes explained
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"sometimes you just do what you know that you should,
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even when it don't feel good."
[Interlude]
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D A G A G
[Verse]
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carol rhodes, she said,
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"history books may have said
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this is how things always looked,
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but things have been shook.
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they have been shook.
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and carol rhodes, she said,
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"if there was just one thing that could
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be understood:
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it's that we've since seen things
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that we thought then impossible."