Ray Flanagan - We're on the Move Now Lyrics

When we walked from Marion, AL
They shut the lights of Jimmy Lee Jackson down
With hardly a penny or gun in hand
They lowered his body 'neath the ground
Took 45 years to convict the trooper
He claimed he felt bad
No matter how hard the guilt he felt
You can't really take a life someone never had

We're on the move now
Up from Marion
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on

When we crossed the bridge to Dallas County
We were stared down by John Cloud
When there was nothing to discuss
He threw tear gas bombs into the crowd
You can burn our churches and bomb our homes
You can beat and kill our young
No mighty army can stop us now
Like a grand idea whose time has come

We're on the move now
From Selma to Montgom'
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on

Women walked on every continent
To make mind and body clear
'Cause the chief was changed to a diaper stain
And needs changed again for fear
There's a guy reclining for his hard-earned pay
Says he don't wanna hear
The suburbs act as bubbles of light
Where the deaf let the green blind steer

We're on the move now
Through the District of Colum'
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on

When he walked the Via Dolorosa
And up to Calvary Hill
He carried the cross that bought our sins
And bled His Father's will
When the last dollar bill is spent and gone
When the final song is sung
I'm gonna scorch the overgrown White House lawn
And no alternative fact shall leave my tongue

We're on the move now
To the land of promise won
We're on the move now
And these truths are marching on

We're on the move now