Lyrics Cry Freedom - Live at Whittemore Center Arena, Durham, NH, 02.19.96 - Dave Matthews Band

This is a
This is a song that Tim and I have been closing the show with a lot
But that's just 'cause we like it
Thank you all again very much for being so good to us this evening

It's called, Cry Freedom

How can I turn away
Brother, sister go dancing through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place to place your better days
Cry freedom, cry
From a crowd 10,000 wide
Hope laid upon hope
That this crowd will not subside
Let this flag burn to dust
And a new, a fair design be raised
While we wait, head in hands, hands in prayer
And fall into a dreamless sleep again
And we wave our hands

Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us
All slip away

There was a window and by it stood
A mirror in which he could see himself
He thought of something
Something he had never had but
Hoped would come along
Cry freedom, cry
From deep inside
Where we are all confined
While we wave hands in fire, yeah
Wave our hands

Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But war between divide us, somehow slip away

In this room stood a little child
And in this room this little child, she would remain
Until someone might decide
To dance this little child across this hall
Into a cold, dark, space
Where she might never trace her way across this crooked mile
Across this crooked page
Cry freedom, cry
From deep inside where we are all confined
'Til we wave our hands

How can I turn away
Brother-sister go dancing through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place to place your better days

Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us

Hands and feet are all alike
Hear, hear what I say
Hear what I say
Oh, so see it here
Can we dance away?

How can I turn away?
Brother-sister go dancing through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place to place your better days

Thank you all very, very much
Bye-bye, peace only
Look after yourselves
Goodnight