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from We Didn't Have Time to Be Scared by Geha

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Forced to live in an internment camp in Trinidad, the family searches for hope.

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I know things could be worse, that doesn’t help me
We’ve been shut out, told we don’t belong, though we’ve done nothing wrong
You say there’s justice in the universe?
Very well, we need a sign, a small direction, if you’re so inclined to

Tell me what it takes to make it better
I will not hang my head and live life with regret
You’re gonna have to give me some assistance
‘cause I’m not about to break, but I have lost my inspiration
Tell me what’s it gonna take to make it better?

I’m not a soldier or a leader I’m just a person
They would cast me aside, Heaven knows how they’ve tried.
But I won’t be a victim either,
They can’t treat me worse than I will let them treat me
I won’t let them defeat me

I will find out what it takes to make it better
I will not hang my head and live life with regret
You don’t have to give me your assistance
‘cause I’m not about to break, and once I find my inspiration
I will know just what it takes to make it better

You have no idea the strength that lies inside me
And I won’t be denied my right to be a human
And my right to be free
I will work my fingers to the bone until finally I see it getting better
It’s gonna start getting better
It’s gonna start getting better

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from We Didn't Have Time to Be Scared, released July 30, 2011
Recorded live by the cast of We Didn't Have Time to be Scared
Music and lyrics by Andrew Geha

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Geha New York, New York

Andrew Geha is an award-winning playwright and theater teacher who has worked at Friends Academy, a Quaker school in Locust Valley, NY, since 2001.

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