When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself
When you're so dead wrong
Let alone no one else

Well the children still dying in the streets
The babies still living with disease
The cops got guns, the poor folks got sons
Who work for Mr. Franklin every week

If you've come looking for hard times
Hard times ain't hard to find
Cause we've been given that lifeline
Only once in a lifetime

Baby we were born
Maybe we were born
To be sure to endure
When the storm comes

Got them sad eyes
Got them cat eyes
Got your angels tired
From saving your life

So you would be best
To contain yourself
Before you end up killed

His bare feet
Touch her bare feet
The air breaths sweet
At the mountains peak

And I forgot
What the wise man said
About that ancient thread

Baby we were born
Maybe we were born
To be sure to rejoice
When it succumbs


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Lifeline Lyrics as written by Clarence Copeland Greenwood

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    General Comment

    Like the old proverb "It is a long lane that has no turning". Bad times come but will not stay forever, the storm will fade and the sun will come again.

    john105270on November 23, 2017   Link
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    General Comment

    One of my favorite songs by Citizen Cope because of the deep meaning behind the lyrics. 99% of the song is dedicated to describing some of the lowest times a person could go through. The last verse however switches up to describe that, even though things might be horrible, cheer up and everything will pass just like a storm. Great lyrics

    trailblaza05on March 01, 2011   Link
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    Lyric Correction

    The booklet that came with the cd says the last line is "rejoice when it succumbs", but this song is great.

    Murphyslawon May 29, 2011   Link
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    General Comment

    "about that ancient Bread"

    to rejoice, rejoice when it's so cold

    journeyousgloryon September 06, 2011   Link

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