We Are One
Dan Seals


In a bombed out room in Belfast

A young boy is crying

He's alone and he don't understand

How the teachings of one book

Built on love and understanding

Could cause thehurt and killing in his land

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In an old part of Jerusalem

Two children are playing

They run and laugh

The way it's meant to be

But one will wear the star and one will wear the crescent

And they'll grow up and change from friends to enemies

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Chorus

But we are one

Flowers of one garden

We're one the leaves of one tree

Let the walls come down

And stand here together

We are one family

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In a Pakistani village

A young boy on crutches

Takes a fall

And lies helplessly there

And he holds out his hand

But no one will take it

They won't touch him

Or the clothes that he wears

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On a side street in Selma

A black child is sitting

In a squad car

Protected from the whites

'Cause they're burning a cross

To send her a message

And you can see

The fear in her eyes

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Chorus

But we are one

Flowers of one garden

We're one the leaves of one tree

Let the walls come down

And stand here together

We are one family

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Ponder in our hearts

How we were all created

From the same dust

And searching we will find

That spirit of the age

Has come to find us

To find us

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Chorus

But we are one

Flowers of one garden

We're one the leaves of one tree

Let the walls come down

And stand here together

We are one family