They said some men would be warriors   Some men would be kings   Some men would be owners of land   And other man-made things   False love as the eternal flame   Would move some to think in rings   And gold would be our power   And other foolish things      And you who dream of liberty   Must not yourselves be fooled   Before you get to plea for freedom   You've agreed to being ruled   If the body stays a shackle   Then the mind remains a chain   And that will link you to your destiny   Where by other souls are slain      It won't take long   It won't take too long at all      Three men in a desert wandering   One is knowing and two are scared   They say time is in the river   Oh but the river is not there   Dry in spirit   Dry in body   Two will lend themselves to death   And in grief one weeps into his hands   And drinks his bitter tears      'cause it don't take long   It don't take too long at all   No it don't take long   You may say   I don't know what you're talking about   And I say   You mean to tell me that's all      And I stand before you now   I am hopeful in my rage   You know love has finally called for me   I will not wilt upon it's stage   But you know still smaller than my nightmare   Now do I print upon the page   And do we have to live inside it's walls   To identify the cage      'cause it takes so long   Why does it take so long   And it takes so long   You may say   I don't really care what you're talking about   I'm gonna ask you   You trying to tell me you don't belong      I am my mother's daughter   But I have seen myself in you   It's this blessing that I follow now   And so I must speak true   I dreamed of thousands dying   It was you and you and you   And while the city sleeps so quietly   There is something we must do      And it wont' take long   It won't take too long at all   It won't take long   May say   I don't know if I wanna know what you're getting at   It makes me wanna say   So long      Grief shall come in measures   Only grief alone will know   And you'll see it on your family   And on your own face it will grow   Then they'll try to keep you hungry   And they'll tell you to eat snow   You know pride can be a moving thing   If we learn the strength of no      And it won't take long   It won't take too long at all   No it won't take long   You may say   I don't think this has anything to do with me   Did you ever think you could be wrong      At noon on one day coming   Human strength will fill the streets   Of every city on our planet   Hear the sound of angry feet   With business freezed up in the harbour   The kings will pull upon their hair   And the banks will shudder to a halt   And the artists will be there      'cause it won't take long   It won't take too long at all   No it won't take long   And you may say   I don't think I can be a part of that   And it makes me want to say   Don't you want to see yourself that strong      Division between the peoples   Will disappear that honoured day   And though oceans lie between us   Lifted candles light the way   Half will join their hands by moonlight   The rest under the rising sun   As underneath the sun and moon   A ritualed wailing has begun      And it won't take long   It won't take too long at all   And it won't take long   And you may say   I don't know how to be a part of what you're talking about   And it makes me want to say   Come on   Come on      Oh beware you sagging diplomats   For you will not hear one gun   And though our homes be torn and ransacked   We will not be undone   For as we let ourselves be bought   We're gonna let ourselves be free   And if you think we stand alone   Take a look around and you will see      We are children in the rafters   We are babies in the park   We are lovers at the movies   We are candles in the dark   We are changes in the weather   We are snowflakes in july   We are women grown together   We are men who easily cry   We are words no quickly spoken   We're the deeper side of try   We are dreamers in the making   We are not afraid of why