Hundred Year Storm - Mental lyrics

and you know, if I were standing (only when it is dark enough...) at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight (but I wouldn't stop there) and I would watch God's children (but I wouldn't stop there) (but I wouldn't stop there) (but I wouldn't stop there) if you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. the nation is sick. trouble is in the land; confusion all around. that's a strange statement. but I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. (survival) that men in some strange way are responding. something is happening in our world. the ma**es of people are rising up. and wherever they are a**embled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee — the cry is always the same: "we want to be free." (I wouldn't stop there) it is no longer the choice between violence and non- violence in this world, it's non-violence or non-existence that is where we are today we will walk together or we will die together let us stand with a greater determination let us move on in these powerful days.