How can I keep silent when I know the truth?
 How can I stand idly by with the privileged few?
 There's criminals in power; the keepers of the lie
 They say you've got salvation when they know you're gonna die

 I don't wanna be the one to bring the curtain down
 I'd much rather stay at home and keep what I have found
 But Jesus didn't call me to do what I would do
 So how can I keep silent when I know the truth?

 What is it that binds me? What can keep me down?
 But as I read and as I bleed, oh, my heart is fixed
 And if I follow blind men, well, we'll fall in the ditch

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 Oh Lord I can't justify what the ones above me do
 Oh Lord I can testify nothing more or less will do
 And I'll be your witness in the wild
 The dragon stands in front of me
 The virgin's been defiled, Oh God ...

 How can I keep silent when I know the truth?
 I ask myself one question: What would Jesus do?

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