Lyrics

Brick by brick, they broke our backs
Mud in the blood, whip on the skin
Ramses laughed at the smoking kiln
We cried to the night from the pit within

Our sons in the mud
Our daughters in chains
The river ran red
With the weight of pain

Then the veil came down
On Egypt's pride
Ten cold warnings
Tore through the sky

Let my people go
Let my people go
Hand of the Lord came down
Let my people go

Ash in the grain
Dark in the door
We walked out alive
We were slaves no more

Frogs in the bed
Blood in the Nile
Flies in the feast
Fear in the smile

Hail on the field
Locusts in waves
Blackened the stores
Broke open the gates

Firstborn cries
In the dead of night
Pharaoh's crown cracked
At the edge of fright

Then the sea split wide
Like a wounded wall
We stepped through fear
And watched it fall

Let my people go
Let my people go
Hand of the Lord came down
Let my people go

Ash in the grain
Dark in the door
We walked out alive
We were slaves no more

Forty years
Sand in our lungs
Forty years
Old tongues on the run

Manna fell
Like mercy in fire
Rock gave water
To a broken choir

Wilderness road
Bone and dust
Still we marched
In God we trust

Let my people go
Let my people go
Hand of the Lord came down
Let my people go

Milk and honey
Over the hill
Promise of home
We are standing still

Ash in the grain
Dark in the door
We walked out alive
We were slaves no more