Jennifer Berezan Take Me to the Mountain

I was born in ’61 It seemed the world had just begun

There were a million things you could put your faith in

And I was raised on Herman Hesse, women’s rights, left politics,

And Bob Dylan, before he got religion

We knew that we could make it right

To change this world overnight

We sang, and we marched, and we believed

But years they come and years they go

Where you’ll end up no body knows

Sometimes I feel like I can hardly breathe

Oh, take me to the mountain

Sing me an old song and remind me what it means

I’ll always be a child of that history

Weaving the future out of yesterday’s dreams

I was just a child back then; 71’ I was just ten

There was something in those winds of change that moved me

Voices echoed ‘cross the land in a language I could understand

Like some lightning bolt, they burned right through me

Now I used to believe that life’s a road your travellin

A straight shot down until you reach the promised the land

But lately I come to see that life’s a river rambling

Each day you wait and try to do the best you can

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