Better Angels

Lyrics

[Intro] You can't just take people away like that It's not fair This man, this man [Verse 1] This man, he was a good man, with a life and years to live This man deserved the best of what this country has to give And no just law would mean that such a man should disappear We're not just helpless children, do you hear me? Do you hear? Do you hear? [Chorus] We have betrayed our better angels The ones that once showed us the way The better angels of our nature Arе they lost to us today? Well, it isn't yours to say [Verse 2] This man, who they had vanishеd, like a murder, like a ghost This man is an American in all that matters most Both tireless and fearless, full of music, proud and free If such a man can disappear, then why not you and me? Why not me? [Chorus] When did we lose our better angels? How did we leave them in our wake? How did we sacrifice our truest cause For some small comfort's sake We know compassion is not weakness And that true justice is not blind But we have lost our better angels We have left them far behind [Verse 3] It's such a poor, pathetic sight One old white man, one errant night Awakened to this world at last But if there is a God, well, then a thousand old and tired white men A million old and scared white men will wake up just like me And fast, and fast [Chorus] And we must find our better angels And our country's stolen soul And remember where we came from And make what's broken whole For we were born in revolution And we were built on rights of men When we fight, we say for freedom Will we know freedom once again? [Bridge] For we warriors of freedom We have up and we've deserted Am I preaching to the choir? But the choir's not converted They say a single voice Cannot be heard above the roar So we'll raise a million voices And as one, we'll say "No more!" [Outro] And seek our better angels We will find our better angels We will know our better angels With Ray We will embrace our better angels One day