Everybody wake up
If you're living with your eyes closed
See the man with the bomb in his hand
Everybody wake up

Oh baby it's not easy sometimes
They build these walls ever higher and hide behind them
Seems an odd way to make things right
Oh I feel crazy sometimes

Our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
The believers stand behind him and smile

Everybody wake up
If you're living with your eyes closed
See the man with the bomb in his hand
Everybody wake up

Remember the words of the misguided fool
Do unto others as you'd have them do
Not an eye for an eye as the golden rule
Just leaves a room full of blind men

Our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
The believers stand behind him and smile
As the day lights up with fire

Everybody wake up
If you're living with your eyes closed
See the man with the bomb in his hand
Everybody wake up
(repeat to fade)


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Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives) Lyrics as written by Carter A. Beauford Boyd C. Tinsley

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    the bomb can be a bullet or a bible.. for both kill.

    mankind makes rules to divide. makes gun to destroy and not to build up.

    the pig is an unclean sacrifice before God...it aint a lamb. mankind changes all the rules..even to worship his God and hes wrong in doing so...wake up!.

    man lives with his eyes shut, yet still belives he on the right path.. daves just saying open your eyes and realize what you see is what your really getting.

    Me2on May 17, 2005   Link

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