I've kept it inside much to long   There's no relief   Carry it around just like a stone   Too heavy for me      I had paid the price   Of standing on the outside looking in      It's time to let the healing begin      A boy is strung out he's going through hell   His mother weeps   His spirit is broken and there's nothing left   Just a terrible need      And the days are marked by the heaviness of the heart   It never mends      Until the healing begins      And the tension prowls the streets like and animal   The people stay behind their locks and chains   It's a shame when so many are trying their best to live as one   And the smoke form the fires covers up the sun      A young girl is lying in the dirt her dreams ended there   Caught in the crossfire on somebody's turf hatred in the air      It's a voice that never sings, a winter without the spring   It never ends      It's time to let the healing begin, okay   It's time to let the healing begin, oh babe      I won't let the healing come down   [Incomprehensible]   Let the healing begin   Let those broken hearts [Incomprehensible]   As time [Incomprehensible]