A Way Out of No Way

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Way Out of Now Way, A

Alternate Title:

Now Is the Time

First Line:

There comes a time when you have to say something

Artist & Tune

Composed by:

Sally Rogers

Rec/Performed by:

Sally Rogers

Version by Sally Rogers

Version by Annie Patterson & Peter Blood

Reference

Genre:

composed folk US

Topic:

gun violence

About the Song

Sally writes: "My new song based on the words of Rep. John Lewis as he led a sit-in for common sense gun legislation on the House floor, June 23, 2016."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/house-democrats-hold-sit-gun-control-n597041

This sit-in was a response to the massacre of 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando FL on July 12, 2016

There comes a time when you have to say something
There comes a time to make a little noise
There comes a time for no ordinary action
There comes a time to raise your voice

(up 2) G - C G / G - Em - / C - G Em / Am - D - ://

There comes a time when you have to move your feet
There comes a time to step into the fray
There comes a time to end the silence
There comes a time for a safer day.

Now is the time, the time is (2x)
Now is the time
Now is the time to get in the way
To make a way out of no way

C - G - / / C - G Em / C - D - / C DG G

There comes a time to be stronger than the bullets
There comes a time to be louder than the guns
There comes a time to shout for the victims
There comes a time to right those wrongs
There comes a time to hold the hand of your neighbor
There comes a time to end an endless war
There comes a time to turn tears to action
There comes a time to say, “No More!”

There comes a time to say “No!” to the NRA
There comes a time to ban automatic guns.
There comes a time to keep guns out of angry hands.
There comes a time to get it done
There comes a time to say, “We have had enough!”
There comes a time to march in the streets
There comes a time for us to protest
There comes a time to save a heartbeat!

"Sometimes you have to do something out of the ordinary, sometimes you have to make a way out of no way,” said Lewis, one of the last living icons of the civil rights movement. “There comes a time when you have to say something, when you have to make a little noise, when you have to move your feet. This is the time. Now is the time to get in the way. The time to act is now. We will be silent no more."