Bonus track: The Healing (Single Version)

from We Who Believe in Freedom by Emily Elbert

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lyrics

Out in a distant clearing
Quiet you can hear her breathing
Feel the heart beating like a drum
There is a world awaiting
Home of peace & reparations
Maybe it’s not that far from home

Come on, we’re getting closer
Come on, we’re getting closer

When I close my eyes
I hear the voices crying out
hurry, we don’t have much time (no)

Hold on for the healing, family
All voices needed
To speak up and to listen
To act on intention
Hey! We’ve got work to do

Must not dismiss the vision
What’s achieved by cynicism?
Justice needs the hand and the heart
Got to walk the walk of our religions
Put our money where our mouth is
Right now is the time to start

Come on, we’re getting closer
Come on, we’re getting closer

So my true allegiance
To all people
Til we’re equal nobody’s free, no

Hold on for the healing, family
All voices needed
To speak up and to listen
To act on intention
Hey! We’ve got work to do

And now the veil is thinning
We’re staring fear in the face
The time & the place
Is right where we are standing
Before it all falls away
Falls away

It’s easy to get disillusioned
Weighed down by the mind pollution
Custom tailored headlines & hate
But we’re hard-wired for evolution
If we envision a future
Inclusive of all, we can make it

Come on, we’re getting closer
Come on, we’re getting closer
Come on, we’re getting
Come on, we’re getting

Hold on for the healing, family
All voices needed
To speak up and to listen
To act on intention
Hey! We’ve got work to do

credits

from We Who Believe in Freedom, released October 24, 2018
Emily Elbert - guitar, vocals
Solomon Dorsey - bass
Tamir Barzilay - drums
Dylan Day - slide guitar
Jessica Childress & Raquel Rodriguez - background vocals

Words and music by Emily Elbert
Produced by Emily Elbert & Dillan Witherow
Drums & bass engineered by Sam Brawner at Blue Dream Studios in Los Angeles, CA
All other instruments engineered by Dillan Witherow at Emily's home in Los Angeles, CA
Mixed by Alex Krispin in Atlanta, GA
Mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic in Nashville, TN

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(photos by Jayden Becker)

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