I Was Here lyrics - Suffs

I Was Here

I've never felt so alive before.
Out here together, I realize I'm not alone anymore.
I feel a part of something bigger than me, something bigger.
It's opening.
I feel my world completely changed.
I finally feel it change.

Hello, Ida Well, speaking!
It's Mary here with Phyllis in Nashville.
Mary, what happened?
It passed.
They did it.
We did it.

Go on now, tell me how much easier this all would have been without my troublemaking.
Not this time.
I bet all the white ladies were crying rivers, huh?

Oh, they sure were.
But me and Mama, we danced our way right out of the state house, didn't we?
Your mama dancing?
Now I would like to see that.
I like to dance Okay!
They'll still stop our women from voting,
Same as they do to our men.
I know, but I'm so tired of fighting.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go. Say it, Mama.
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go.
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go.

I want my mother to know I was here.
I want my sisters to know I was here.
I want my great-granddaughter to know I was here. I was here.
I want your mother to know I was here.
I want your children to know I was here.
I want your great-granddaughter to know. I need her to know I was here.
Last Update: June, 10th 2024