Carol Rhodes Lyrics

carol rhodes knew that she seemed
as a sculpture of stone,
to those who grew up living history's end.
she said "if there's something worse
than not living to see
what the worth of your work is,
it's living to find no one's heard
tha you fought for it."
and carol rhodes, well,
no one ever said that it would be understood.
and history books, well they said
"this is how things always looked.
it's not to be shook."

harold arthur grew up fighting for something
that then seemed impossible:
liberation from a law.
he said "when you're not worth as much
as the other folks riding the bus,
you put up a fuss.
put your life above some law."
and harold's blood,
no one ever said that it would be understood.
and carol rhodes explained
"sometimes you just do
what you know that you should,
even when it don't feel good."
carol rhodes, she said,
"history books may have said
this is how things always looked,
but things have been shook.
they have been shook.
and carol rhodes, she said,
"if there was just one thing that could
be understood:
it's that we've since seen things
that we thought then impossible."