Nothing feels right and nothing feels wrong   But living in this skin has made me a little bit too numb   So I'll hold the hot coals in the palms of my hands   Just to burn away the layers if I can and I know      I will overcome   I will overcome      Say that I will and then I say that I won't   Revisit this place inside that's killing off my last hope   And it happened to me and then it happened to her   An angry fist from an uneducated temper      I will overcome   I will overcome      By love   By marching on (By marching on)   One foot in front of the other   One foot in front of the other      And then by faith   Message in hand   They told me I wouldn't make it   They told me I couldn't make it      Still I will overcome (One foot in front of the other)   I will overcome