My Heart Aches

G C G G C G C G We marched fifty years and five hundred miles C G From a Mississippi bridge to the Ferguson trial C G Stepping over bodies of other mothers’ sons C G Singing how someday we shall overcome G And my heart aches C G My heart aches C G We marched fifty years and so many miles C G With folded hands and complacent smiles C G Condemned a generation to circumstance C G And all we were saying was ‘give peace a chance’ G And my heart aches C G My heart aches C G We marched fifty years and countless miles C G Ignoring the signs with our own denials C G Waiting for some others to take a stand C G And hammer out justice all over this land G And my heart aches C G My heart aches C G For the children locked in cages C G Far away where no one sees C G For the helpless and the hopeless Em C For the homeless refugees G My heart aches C G My heart aches C G For the voices who’ve been silenced C G At the mercy of our greed C G For the prisoners of conscience Em C Who speak out for those in need G My heart aches C G My heart aches C G For the victims of the hatred C G They are lying there on the ground C G In the churches and the schoolyards Em C From the shots that took them down G My heart aches C G My heart aches C G For the claims made on our bodies C G And who we can and can’t embrace C G For the children of tomorrow Em C And the world they have to face G My heart aches C G Em C My heart aches G Em C My heart aches G Em C My heart aches G Em C My heart aches G Em C My heart aches G My heart aches