EYES ON THE PRIZE

(Greens Version)




1. Bound and gagged by the powers that be,
gonna build a better world for you and me.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!

I’m layin’ it down, and you don’t have to answer,
But the streets of this world are paved with cancer.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!

REFRAIN: Hold on. Hold on.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on.

2. Grandkids a-comin’, better clean this joint;
otherwise, I’m a-wonderin’ what’s the point??
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!

Clean air, clean water, that’s what we need.
But that means we gotta curb the rich folks’ greed.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!
(...repeat refrain...)

3. I don’t know, but I’ve been told
Capital Hill been bought and sold.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!

That river of Denial, it’s a-chilly an’ wide.
If you wanna get across, you better get on our side.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!
(...repeat refrain...)

4. Bound and gagged by the powers that be,
gonna build a better world for you and me.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!

But inch-by-inch and hand-in-hand,
Sisters & Brothers, we can save this land.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold on!
(...repeat refrain twice...)


Words by Galen Green c 1989