After All

The Lyrics of Terry Hubbard

After All

I wonder why nothing ever changes,

Everybody should have got the news by now.

Armed with all the wisdom of the ages,

We still can’t change a sword into a plow.

And after all, you can’t find freedom if it ain’t for sale,

And you can’t buy tomorrow if you’re still payin’ for yesterday.

My arrival was the same as everyone.

I was born with nothing in my hand.

Yet today I was just sittin’ in the sun,

And I felt the fire that’s burnin’ all the land.

Some may say it’s just imagination,

In a few more years they’ll say the sky was never blue.

And the rich ones still claim there’s no relation

To the things they’ve done, and the things they’re gonna do.

And after all, you can’t find freedom if it ain’t for sale,

And you can’t buy tomorrow if you’re still payin’ for yesterday

If a flaming mountain fell into the ocean,

And no one looked, how would anyone see?

And how could anyone have such a notion,

If it were not possible for such a thing to be?

Some may say, “It could never happen.”

They used to say their little world was flat.

If there’s a reason nothing ever changes,

They are a fine, fine, example of that.

And after all, you can’t find freedom if it ain’t for sale,

And you can’t buy tomorrow if you’re still payin’ for yesterday

And after all, you can’t find freedom if it ain’t for sale,

And you can’t buy tomorrow if you’re still payin’ for yesterday