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Come good people and gather 'round

Step out of the water before you drown

Tide is coming swift and deep

Gonna knock you off your feet

There’s a tide of greed that knows no shame

And a tide of money that holds no stain

A tide of men who worship pride

And will not be denied

While politicians lie and cheat

To get to higher ground

We follow them like sheep

And salute them as we drown

But no man will be king

When all men wear the crown

And there will be a reckoning

From deep inside the rising tide

As we tear down the walls

Of the Great Divide

Come good people and gather here

You who still hold freedom dear

Step across the waters

Bring your sons and daughters

Some will sink and some will swim

Some will walk on the water again

Some will rise and some will fall

Each one will hear the call

While churches counsel patience

And heavenly reward

They sub-divide our nations

By the shield and by the sword

And every congregation

Has a pipeline to the lord

But there will be no salvation

And no place to hide for those who lied

And buried us alive to build the walls

Of the Great Divide

And oh, when the poorest of the poor

Come knocking at the door

They will not be denied

And oh, when those who took too much

Are stripped of it and judged

Then mercy will provide for the rising tide

So come good people and gather 'round

Come and stand on common ground

Raise your voices up and sing

Let’s make the heavens ring

And you whose silence costs your soul

Learn to speak or dig your hole

Tomorrow’s here and it won’t wait

No time to hesitate

The tide’s already risen

The deluge is at hand

Don’t sit there by the ocean

While it sucks away the sand

'Cause you’ll be left with nothing

But the memory of land

While we sit high above the tide

And watch the walls begin to fall

As one by one our children wave goodbye

To the Great Divide

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