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Ed Ames
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah!
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From the canyons of the mind,
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We wander on and stumble blindly
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Through the often-tangled maze
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Of starless nights and sunless days,
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While asking for some kind of clue
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Or road to lead us to the truth,
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But who will answer?
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Side by side two people stand,
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Together vowing, hand-in-hand
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That love's imbedded in their hearts,
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But soon an empty feeling starts
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To overwhelm their hollow lives,
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And when they seek the hows and whys,
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Who will answer?
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On a strange and distant hill,
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A young man's lying very still.
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His arms will never hold his child,
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Because a bullet running wild
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Has struck him down. And now we cry,
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"Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?"
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But who will answer?
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High upon a lonely ledge,
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A figure teeters near the edge,
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And jeering crowds collect below
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To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!"
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But who will ask what led him
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To his private day of doom,
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And who will answer?
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[Chorus:]
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If the soul is darkened
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By a fear it cannot name,
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If the mind is baffled
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When the rules don't fit the game,
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Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah!
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In the rooms of dark and shades,
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The scent of sandalwood pervades.
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The colored thoughts in muddled heads
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Reclining in the rumpled beds
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Of unmade dreams that can't come true,
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And when we ask what we should do,
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Who... Who will answer?
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'Neath the spreading mushroom tree,
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The world revolves in apathy
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As overhead, a row of specks
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Roars on, drowned out by discotheques,
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And if a secret button's pressed
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Because one man has been outguessed,
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Who will answer?
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Is our hope in walnut shells
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Worn 'round the neck with temple bells,
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Or deep within some cloistered walls
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Where hooded figures pray in halls?
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Or crumbled books on dusty shelves,
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Or in our stars, or in ourselves,
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Who will answer?
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(Repeat Chorus Below)
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If the soul is darkened
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By a fear it cannot name,
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If the mind is baffled
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When the rules don't fit the game,
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Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelujah!
Who Will Answer - Ed Ames
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