Intro: Verse I I've kept it inside much too long there's no relief carried it around just like a stone too heavy for me I have paid the price for standing on the outside looking in it's time to let the healing begin verse II a boy is strung out, he's going through hell his mother weeps his spirit is broken and there's nothing left just a terrible need and the days are marked, by the heaviness of the heart it never mends, until the healing begins and the tension prowls the street like an animal the people stay behind their locks and chains it's a shame when so many are trying their best to live as one and the smoke from the fires covers up the sun verse III a young girl is lying in the dirt her dreams ended there caught in the crossfire on somebody's turf hatred in the air it' a voice that never sings a winter without the spring it never ends it's time to let the healing begin it's time to let the healing begin fade with