A Church Is Burning lyrics

A church is burning, the flames rise higher,
Like hands that are praying, a-glow in the sky,
Like hands that are praying the fire is saying
`You can burn down my churches but I shall be free.`

Three hooded men thru the back-roads did creep,
Torches in their hands while the village lies asleep.
Down to the church where just hours before,
Voices were singing and hands were beating and saying,
I won`t be a slave any more.

A church is burning, the flames rise higher,
Like hands that are praying, a-glow in the sky,
Like hands that are praying the fire is saying
`You can burn down my churches but I shall be free.`

Three hooded men, their hands lit the spark,
Then they faded in the night and they vanished in the dark,
And in the cool light of morning there`s nothing that remains,
But the ashes of a Bible and a can of kerosene.

A church is burning, the flames rise higher,
Like hands that are praying, a-glow in the sky,
Like hands that are praying the fire is saying
`You can burn down my churches but I shall be free.`

A church is more than just timber and stone,
And freedom is a dark road when you`re walking it alone,
But the future is now and it`s time to take a stand,
So the lost bells of freedom can ring out in my land.

A church is burning, the flames rise higher,
Like hands that are praying, a-glow in the sky,
Like hands that are praying the fire is saying
`You can burn down my churches but I shall be free
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