We Are Not Helpless - Stephen Stills

We are not helpless we are men

What lies between us

It can be set aside and ended

Everyday we learn more how to hate

Shut the door

And then we’ll tell ourselves we can’t relate

Only to the ones who are the same

Yet even they are different

And ever so they shall remain

All are strangers, all are friends, all are brothers

Open up my friend and learn to hear

For even lying

When it has nothing you should fear

If you cannot let yourself be

Known by anyone

Then you are hiding and not whole

All are strangers, all are friends, all are brothers

We your children we would ask you all

Please do not hide your eyes

And listen when we will call

We will whisper shout or make a scene

We are the answer

For we can live the peace we dream

All are strangers, all are friends, all are brothers

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Yes America’s children

Are askin' everybody some questions about how it is

Yes America’s children

Are makin' it hard to look them in the eyes whoa it is

America’s children

Are makin' it hard to live lies you know whoa it is

And America’s children are diggin' that everywhere children

Are diggin' we live on the earth

We live on the earth we live on the earth right now

Yes, and it’s right on children of the earth and it’s right on

Children of the earth and it’s right on

Children of the earth and it’s right on right on, yeah

This is what has made our nation free

For life is change

And only blind men cannot see

The new order is upon us now it is the children

They have the wisdom to be free

All are strangers, all are friends, all are brothers