BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - We are alive lyrics

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There is a cross up yonder up on Calvary Hill

There is a slip of blood on a silver knife

There is a graveyard kid down below

Where at night did come to life

And above the stars, they crackle in fire

A dead man’s moon throws seven rings

Well, we put our ears to the cold grave stones

This is the song they’d sing

We are alive

And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark

Our spirits rise to carry the fire and light the spark

To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart

A voice cried out, I was killed in Maryland in 1877

When the railroad workers made their stand

Well, I was killed in 1963 one Sunday morning in Birmingham

Well, I died last year crossing the southern Desert

My children left behind in San Pablo

Well they left our bodies here to rot

Oh please let them know

We are alive

Oh, and though we lie alone here in the dark

Our souls will rise to carry the fire and light the spark

To fight shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart

Let your mind rest easy, sleep well my friend

It’s only our bodies that betray us in the end

I awoke last night in a dark and dreamy deep

From my head to my feet, my body gone stone cold

There were worms crawling all around me

Fingers scratching at an earth black and six foot low

And alone in the blackness of my grave

Alone I’d been left to die

Then I heard voices calling all around me

The earth rose above me, my eyes filled with sky

We are alive

And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark

Our souls and spirits rise

To carry the fire and light the spark

To fight shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart

To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart

We are alive