Show Them The Way (Acoustic Piano Version)

Show Them The Way (Acoustic Piano Version) - Stevie Nicks

Please God show 'em the way

Please God on this day

Spirits all given the strength

Peace can come if you really want it

I had a fragile dream

In a grey house in the Hamptons

I'd been there before

Singing songs and doing benefits

Was in a room alone

Putting on my makeup

Like so many things that come to me

The dress came across the Persian carpet

As I fell into the dress

A thought came to me

Into my heart

I have a dream

And a door opened

I turned to face the music

I was ready for the Kennedy's

I don't know if it was 1960 or 1963

Everything was timeless even me

I wasn't old I wasn't young

I was just part of their dream

A shadow walked with me down the hall

It was Martin Luther King

All in shadow all before me

Overwhelmed by destiny

Someone said sing us a song

There's a piano and handed me a drink

The room was full of hope

A song would set them free

And I said

Please God show 'em the way

Please God on this day

Spirits all given the strength

Peace can come if you really want it

I sat at the piano

Stared out of the shadows

I sang the words I have a dream

He wasn't my old friend John

I didn't know him then

But he smiled at me

And I sang these words

Whatever it takes

Whatever it takes to be free

No I didn't know these men

But they knew me

It was all symbolic

Nothing was as it seemed

They all left us in a single shot

But they didn't take the dream

They were there in that house

Discussing the future

And drinking champagne

I was just a piano player

The voice part of their dream

I was thirty-five and maybe I was fifteen

It was just another night in the presence of Martin Luther King

I was just a dreamer

I was ready for the Kennedy's

And I said

Please God show 'em the way

Please God on this day

Light the fire start it over

Tell the world about the dream

Start it up and make it real

Back in the room where it all began

My heart began to heal

I believe it

I remember the beauty of the Hamptons

Shadows playing in the sun

A voice said

The dream is not over no

The dream has just begun

I spun around to see another shadow

Slipping through the door

And my eyes opened wide

What is this all for

And the shadow said

Don't forget it

Don't forget what we were fighting for

Don't forget it

And I said

Please God show 'em the way

Please God on this day

Spirits all given the strength

Peace can come if you fight for it

Think we're just in time to say

Just in time to say

Given the strength come this day

Please God oh

Please God

Please God

Show 'em the way

I think we're just in time to say way

Just in time

Please God show 'em the way

Please God

Don't forget it

Don't forget it

Don't forget it

Please God

Show them the way