Fly

Inspired by Lisa Sharon Harper’s book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World–And How To Repair It All, “Fly (aka Fortune’s Song)” is an epic call to truth-telling and repair. This anthem points the way forward; daring us all to dream of the healing that truth can bring, if we let it.

FLY
Written by Lisa Sharon Harper (ASCAP), Phillip Joubert (ASCAP), Vincent Charlow (BMI)
© 2023 Common Hymnal Publishing (ASCAP), Lisa Sharon Harper (ASCAP), Zero Dynamite (ASCAP), Common Hymnal Digital (BMI), Soul Lore Creative (BMI) (admin by IntegratedRights.com). CCLI 7226618.

VERSE 1
There is a lie
That stole the daughters from their mothers arms
The sons from out beneath their father's shade
There was a lie
That drove the ships upon the waters
Built the walls around the life we live today

PRE CHORUS 1
When words of life are tools of death
To bind up dignity
We think that what we've come to know
Is all that this could be

CHORUS 1
Fly to a better life and world for you and I
Fly to a better life and world for you and I

VERSE 2
There is a lie
Making judgments without justice
Writing laws to keep the power where it's been
There is a lie
That steals the vote and harms the harmless
Working day and night to make us slaves again

PRE CHORUS 2
When hope is bent to make us feel
That things can never change
And all they ever let us see
Are claimers and the claimed

CHORUS 2
Fly to a better life and world for you and I
Fly to a better life and world for you and I
Fly …

VERSE 3
There is a truth
That can heal us if we let it
Reparation to restore and make it right

CHORUS 3
Fly to a better life and world for you and I
Fly to a better life and world for you and I
Fly, fly, fly
We can build a better world for you and I