Your Crown of Love is Bought and Paid For

[Call]
Hallelujah!
Can you hear it in the distance?
Feet on the pavement, fire in the bones,
Old chains rattlin’, old lies crackin’,
Love comes marching to reclaim its own.

[Response]
Hallelujah!
Love comes marching to reclaim its own!

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We been told to kneel to power,
We been told to fear the throne,
But the throne was never built for tyrants,
It was built for the heart coming home.

[Response]
Hallelujah!
The throne was built for the heart coming home!
Love comes marching to reclaim its own!

[Call]
Your Crown of Love is bought and paid for!

[Response]
Bought and paid for!

[Call]
Your Crown of Love is bought and paid for!

[Response]
Bought and paid for!

[Call]
You don’t owe fear one more hour!

[Response]
Not one more hour!

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You don’t bow down anymore!

[Response]
Not anymore!
Not anymore!
Not anymore!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
YOUR CROWN OF LOVE IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
FEAR DON’T OWN YOUR NAME NO MORE!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
LOVE HAS OPENED UP THE DOOR!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
RISE UP NOW —
I AND I ARE LOVE
WE RISE AS ONE!

[Call]
For the immigrant, for the exile,
For the ones they pushed aside,
For the child who learned too early
How a human soul can hide—

[Response]
Bring them in!
Bring them in!
Bring them in from the cold night wind!

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For the women carrying nations,
For the poor beneath the load,
For the hands that built the city
But were denied the harvest gold—

[Response]
Lift them up!
Lift them up!
Lift them up till the whole world knows!

[Call]
Melt the guns and ring the church bells,
Break the crowns of greed and war,
No more kings above the people,
No more blood upon the floor!

[Response]
No more war!
No more war!
Love is what the future’s for!

[Call]
Who told you you were born unworthy?

[Response]
Lie!

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Who told you pain was all you’re worth?

[Response]
Lie!

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Who told you power means domination?

[Response]
Lie!

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What’s the oldest law beneath the heavens?

[Response]
LOVE GIVES LIFE!
LOVE GIVES LIFE!
LOVE GIVES LIFE TO EARTH AND SKY!

[Call]
Your Crown of Love is bought and paid for!

[Response]
Bought and paid for!

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Stamped in mercy, sealed forever!

[Response]
Sealed forever!

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No king of hate can claim your spirit!

[Response]
Not our spirit!

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No empire owns Love’s Domain!

[Response]
The land belongs to those who work for it!
Love is our capital!
Love is our deed!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
YOUR CROWN OF LOVE IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
WE DON’T LIVE IN FEAR ANY MORE!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
THROW open THE WINDOWS and THE DOORS!
The House of Love is Open
FOREVER MORE!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
LET THE PEOPLE SING FORTH!

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I hear mothers, I hear workers,
I hear elders, I hear youth,
I hear those who are weeping
Come on, let’s get together and turn pain into the truth.

[Response]
Sing it loud!
Sing it wide!
Let love abide!
Let love abide!

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I hear freedom in your footsteps,
I hear justice in the bass,
I hear choirs marching onconcrete,
I hear glory in the face of opppression
Love is marching
Love is singing
Love will win!

[Response]
Power to the people!
Power to the people!
Love is rising!
Stand up for love!

[Call]
This ain’t luxury, this is rescue!
This ain’t romance, this is bread and roses!
This is sacred medicine for all our relations
This is love
This is true power
Waking up the walking dead

[Response]
Hallelujah!
Love wakes us up
Hallelujah!
Love wakes us up

[Call]
This is shelter! This is water!
This is dignity restored!
This is every soul remembering
What life is for!

[Response]
We are here!
We are loved!
We are more than what we’ve suffered!

[Call]
Accept your crown!

[Response]
THE CROWN OF LOVE!

[Call]
Who paid the price?

[Response]
Love paid the bill before you arrived
Love has got you
Your reservation is made

[Call]
Come on in!
You got the love, my friend!

[Response]
This world is yours to love!

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What world you ask?

[Response]
THE WORLD OF LOVE!

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What do we build?

[Response]
THE BELOVED COMMUNITY!

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What do we break?

[Response]
THE CHAINS OF FEAR!

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What do we sing till the walls come down?

[Response]
HALLELUJAH!
HALLELUJAH!
HALLELUJAH!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
YOUR CROWN OF LOVE IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
Cast fear out!
No more fear
No more
No more, No more

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
LOVE HAS OPENED EVERY DOOR!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
WE THE PEOPLE RISE AND SING!

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Rise in love!

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Rise in love!

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March in love!

[Response]
March in love!

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Stand in love!

[Response]
Stand in love!

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Crown of Love!

[Response]
Bought and paid for!

[Call]
Crown of Love!

[Response]
Bought and paid for!

[Call]
Crown of Love!

[Response]
Bought and paid for!

[Call]
HALLELUJAH!

[Response]
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR!

Rise in love!
Crown of Love!