How Long

Can't stop, no matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

No matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

Flash, who pulled the trigger?

A boy of thirteen with a gun

Cries piercing the darkness

A mother holds her lifeless son, oh

Asking, "Why? He was your brother"

What possesses one so young?

We live in a nightmare

Tragedy has made us one

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I just wanna know

How long, how long? (Tell me, yeah)

How much more, how long

Is it gonna take?

'Cause I can't take no more

Can't stop, no matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

No matter how long

I gotta keep holding on

Where, where is my daughter?

She has not come home from school

Knock, ten after midnight

Policeman brings the tragic news, oh, no, no, no, no

Help me rise out of my darkness

Her two brother still need me

Tell me, how, how do I tell them?

This ain't how it's 'spose to be

No, no, no, no

Tell me

How long, how long? (I just wanna know how long)

How much more, how long

Is it gonna take?

'Cause I can't take no more

Tell me

I just gotta know

'Cause I can't take no more, no, no, no

(Can't stop, no matter how long)

(I gotta keep holding on) I gotta keep moving

Out of the darkness

But where am I to go?

(No matter how long)

(I gotta keep holding on) My children need me

But I can't always be there

Where I need to go

It's genocide, suicide, where's my pride?

My hands are tied (I gotta keep holding on)

Save me, help me, save me

Save me (I gotta keep holding on)

I just died, you should've seen his eyes

The promise of the future no more (Can't stop, no matter how long)

(I gotta keep holding on)

I got no money

I got no home

I got no husband

No place to go, oh, oh, oh

Lord, Lord, do you hear me, Lord, do you hear me? Yeah