Scottsboro Boys, The movie - It's Gonna Take Time lyrics

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INTERLOCUTOR

You’ll just have to wait Haywood.

IT’S GONNA TAKE TIME, HAYWOOD

IT’S GONNA TAKE TIME

WE’LL PUT THINGS TO RIGHT

BUT NOT OVERNIGHT

IT’S GONNA TAKE TIME

YOU KNOW THAT WAY DOWN DEEP INSIDE

MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD

BUT SOMETIMES THE TERRIBLE THINGS

THAT THEY SAY OR THEY DO

CAN BE TERRIBLY MISUNDERSTOOD

SO GIVE US SOME TIME, HAYWOOD

AND TRY TO BEHAVE

REMEMBER IT HASN’T BEEN SO MANY YEARS

SINCE YOUR GRANDDAD WAS ONLY A SLAVE

IN SOME FUTURE

A VERY BRIGHT NIGRA LIKE YOU

WELL I’D SAY THERE’S NO KNOWING

HOW HIGH HE MIGHT CLIMB

BUT HAYWOOD YOU JUST HAVE TO WAIT

IT’S GONNA TAKE TIME

HAYWOOD

Wait? How can I wait? I’ve done nothing but wait. Thinking this day, next day, something gonna change. Hoping. But what good

is hoping when the same high minded people keep telling the same low minded lies.

INTERLOCUTOR

Now Haywood

MAYBE SOMEDAY THE WORLD

WILL BE MADE UP OF SAINTS

AND FOR EVERYONE

LIFE WILL BE TRULY SUBLIME

BUT TRY TO BE PATIENT FOR NOW

IT’S GONNA TAKE TIME

[Thanks to Garrett for lyrics]