Zach Sands - Black Ribbon Day

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Walk out to the road
Where all the others go
If all goes to plan

We’ll find a place in line
It’s almost starting time
It’s time we took a stand

Two million people strong
Four hundred miles long
Of strangers holding hands

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A revolution on Black Ribbon Day
A better solution is the Baltic Way
Peacefully united — have you heard?
We cannot be divided and conquered
Or whatever, any longer
Because together, we are stronger
On Black Ribbon Day

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On a workday in August
We’ll see what freedom costs us
And what it truly means

There is a shuttle bus
To get the rest of us
We stand along the street

Waving flags at passing cars
Reminding them of who they are
And what it means to be

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A revolution on Black Ribbon Day
A better solution is the Baltic Way
Peacefully united — have you heard?
We cannot be divided and conquered
Or whatever, any longer
Because together, we are stronger
On Black Ribbon Day

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Reagan and Gorbachev
Blowing each other off
From both sides of the Wall

It’s nineteen eighty-nine
This is a changing time
But then again, aren’t they all?

Perestroika and glasnost
Vladimir Lenin’s ghost
Can watch the empire fall

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A revolution on Black Ribbon Day
A better solution is the Baltic Way
Peacefully united — have you heard?
We cannot be divided and conquered
Or whatever, any longer
Because together, we are stronger
On Black Ribbon Day

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Declaring independence
Our principles to defend us
We hold onto each other’s hands

Breaking the shackles with a chain
The people have a voice again
All across this land

Vilnius is where it begins
I hear it ends in Tallinn
A message anyone can understand

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A revolution on Black Ribbon Day
A better solution is the Baltic Way
Peacefully united on August twenty-third
We cannot be divided and conquered
Or whatever, any longer
Because together, we are stronger
On Black Ribbon Day