freedom won so hard to keep spring revolution the river runs deep down from the pyramids to the red sea just a slave with a change of scenery oh no we won t go back to the way it was to the way it was oh no you can never go back to the way it was smash them chains with a fist held high people in the streets they just wanna stay alive mean old king don t you hear the people now crying in the square they just want you out oh no we ll never go back to the way it was to the way it was oh no can t go back to the way it was oh no we ll never go back to the way it was to the way it was oh no we won t go back to the way it was running loose in the bloodstained streets no shirt on my back no shoes on my feet i don t know if my children are dead or alive tell me who s gonna care for the motherless child now you wanna know if i think it s worth it future of our land is so uncertain house burnin down don t you feel that heat turning down a dead end street oh no we won t go back to the way it was to the way it was oh no we ll never go back to the way it was oh no we ll never go back to the way it was to the way it was oh no we can t go back oh no we ll never go back to the way it was oh no we won t go back to the way it was oh no we ll never go back to the way it was oh no we won t go back to the way it was