Dear Rosa (Album Version)-LaBelle

[ti:Dear Rosa] [ar:LaBelle] [al:Back To Now] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dear Rosa (Album Version) - LaBelle [00:28.97]Said i've got something to say [00:31.73] [00:33.03]My dear lady [00:35.84] [00:39.66]Dear Rosa [00:41.19] [00:43.42]I want to say what's on my mind [00:47.09] [00:49.47]I'm writing you a letter [00:52.62] [00:53.51]With love and hope in every line [00:59.02]I try not to think about the pain [01:02.86] [01:03.93]But how your sacrifice will reign [01:08.28]Dear Rosa [01:10.29] [01:11.13]Who would believe [01:16.50] [01:18.10]So hot and tired [01:21.07] [01:22.01]What made you decide [01:25.45] [01:27.26]That you would rather die [01:29.83] [01:30.37]Than just stand so someone else could ride [01:35.45] [01:36.09]And prove that lie again [01:39.67] [01:40.56]That the color of our skin made us less than other men [01:46.01] [01:46.66]Dear Rosa [01:48.49] [01:49.01]Sit down servant [01:51.09]Come on in [01:53.27] [01:54.85]How long Will this hate go on [02:02.52] [02:04.08]Change our lives and now you're gone [02:12.04] [02:13.30]Somebody said and still the cross is burned [02:21.10]Dear Rosa [02:23.50] [02:24.69]The spirit will yearn [02:29.45] [02:32.58]Sitting down in the front of the bus [02:35.29] [02:37.25]You made a stand for all of us [02:40.29] [02:42.13]You didn't move when they called you names [02:45.11] [02:45.96]You knew that a mind was the hardest thing to change [02:51.38]Living in a line your freedom denied [02:55.44]After Malcolm Martin and John gave their life [03:00.70]Dear Rosa [03:02.56]It's so hard not to cry [03:07.22] [03:09.85]Dear Rosa [03:11.50] [03:12.73]You didn't live to see the day we talked to one another [03:21.09] [03:21.70]Regardless of the color of our skin [03:24.99]Or the gods we believed in [03:29.11]When I look around and see people filled with pain [03:35.29] [03:36.14]Dear Rosa [03:38.08] [03:39.30]How did you keep your faith [03:42.97]Yes tell me [03:46.44]How long will this go on [03:54.09] [03:55.06]You changed our lives [03:58.62]Now your gone away goneeeeeeee [04:04.32]Somebody says and still the cross is burned [04:11.41] [04:12.41]Dear Rosa [04:13.65] [04:14.41]The spirit will yearn [04:19.02] [04:22.11]Dear Rosa [04:24.82] [04:25.35]Oh we miss you yes yes we do [04:28.82] [04:29.35]Uh huh oh the trials and troubles [04:34.30]Regardless of the right things to do [04:38.50] [04:41.56]Rosa [04:43.60] [04:46.02]What a wonderful woman [04:47.82] [04:48.96]I am so glad [04:50.84]Rosa you sat down [04:54.42] [04:56.41]Rosa tell will we ever ride [05:04.58] [05:07.29]Where would I be Rosa if you did not believe [05:13.10] [05:14.91]Keep the memory; you've been a blessing to me [05:21.85] [05:24.46]I want the world to sing oh [05:30.45] [05:31.43]Rosa oh you have been good to me [05:38.98]Change our lives [05:40.97] [05:42.14]Oh the pride that I feel and I know that it's real [05:46.67] [05:47.60]Somebody say hey hey [05:55.00] [05:56.36]Dear Rosa [05:57.74] [05:59.22]You sat on down [06:00.97] [06:01.60]I'll keep saying it [06:03.02] [06:08.25]Yes you did [06:09.99] [06:11.32]Tell me somebody [06:14.99] [06:20.79]Somebody say hey hey [06:25.14] [06:25.85]Dear Rosa [06:27.16]Dear Rosa [06:28.19]Dear Rosa [06:30.21]Dear Rosa [06:31.03] [06:31.77]Dear Rosa [06:33.44]Dear Rosa