Audio Recording, Peter Fisher, 1974
- (Music playing)
- PETER FISHER: (Singing) Out of the closet everyone.
- Our liberation day has come.
- The times are changing and it's rearranging.
- Out of the closet everyone.
- Too many years without the sun.
- The age of freedom has begun.
- We are alive now and love can survive now.
- Out of the closet everyone.
- Don't be afraid; love will make you strong.
- Don't be afraid; love goes on and on and on and on.
- We've lived in fear for far too long.
- They told us that our love was wrong.
- Open your heart now.
- It's time to start now.
- Out of the closet everyone.
- Don't be afraid; love will make you strong.
- Don't be afraid; love goes on and on and on and on.
- Out of the closet everyone.
- Gay liberation has begun.
- You can be free now.
- Just follow me now.
- Out of the closet everyone.
- Yeah.
- You can be free now.
- Just follow me now.
- Out of the closet everyone. (End of song)
- (Music playing)
- (Singing) If you want to free someone,
- you'd better free yourself.
- If you want to be someone, you'd better be yourself.
- What I want is what I am and I want it now.
- What I want is what I want.
- Got to get it now.
- If you want to free someone, you'd better free yourself.
- If you want to be someone, you'd better be yourself.
- What I do is who I am.
- Who I do is fine.
- Who I do is where I am.
- What I do is mine, all mine.
- If you want to free someone, you'd better free yourself.
- If you want to be someone, you'd better be yourself.
- Yourself.
- What I am is who I am, and I am myself.
- If you want what I've got, better be yourself.
- Be yourself.
- Oooh, yeah.
- If you want to free someone, you'd better free yourself.
- If you want to be someone, you'd better be yourself.
- If you want to be someone, you'd better be yourself.
- If you want to free someone, you'd better
- free yourself. (End of song)
- (Music playing)
- (Singing) The time is now, brother, The time is now.
- The time is now, sister.
- The time is now.
- Sometimes you gotta draw the line.
- You gotta stand up for yourself.
- Sometimes you gotta change some minds.
- You gotta take it on yourself.
- Sometimes if people put you down,
- you gotta show them that they're wrong.
- Sometimes if people push you round,
- you gotta say it can't go on.
- The time is now, brother.
- The time is now.
- The time is now, sister.
- The time is now.
- Sometimes it seems the safest game
- would be to turn away and hide.
- But in the end, my friend, you'll
- see you gotta have a little pride.
- Sometimes you gotta change your head,
- you gotta stand up and be free.
- Sometimes you gotta leave your bed;
- you gotta get out in the streets.
- Yeah.
- The time is now, brother.
- The time is now.
- The time is now, sister.
- The time is now.
- Sometimes it's hard to take a stand;
- it's hard to say what must be said.
- Sometimes the writing is on the wall,
- and it's waiting to be read.
- Sometimes you gotta take a stand;
- you gotta lay it on the line.
- Sometimes you gotta come on strong;
- you gotta fight to change some minds.
- Yeah.
- The time is now, brother.
- The time is now.
- The time is now, sister.
- The time is now.
- The time is now, brother.
- The time is now.
- The time is now, sister.
- The time is now.
- (Music playing)
- (Singing) Stand with me.
- We know that right is right, and if we have to fight,
- we'll fight together.
- Stand with me.
- Our back's against the wall.
- And if we have to fall, we'll fall together.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- They'll try to put us down, but we can hold our ground
- if we're together.
- Stand with me.
- We've waited for so long.
- We'll show them that we're strong.
- Get it together.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- The world's against us now.
- We'll fight to change it now that we're together.
- Proud and free.
- Come on and stand with me.
- We'll stand until we're free to be together.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Yeah, brother, stand with me.
- Yeah, sister, stand with me.
- Yeah, lover, stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me.
- Stand with me. (End of song)
- (Dogs barking, echoing)
- (Music playing)
- (Singing) Harlem sunrise and the southern sights.
- Sometimes hope dies.
- Harlem sunrise.
- Feel the sunshine warm upon your face.
- Feel the sunshine keep you in your place.
- Night and day, sweet surprise.
- Harlem sun fills the skies.
- Half a dream is better than none.
- Half a day is better than no sun.
- Half my life I've been chained.
- I'll be free again.
- Never leave your freedom behind.
- Only freedom can help you save your mind.
- Night and day; truth and lies.
- Harlem sun fills the skies.
- In December of '72 there was nothing that we could do.
- Come what may no surprise.
- Harlem sun fill the skies.
- Harlem sunrise, and a child cries.
- And a man dies.
- Harlem sunrise, and the sun cries.
- Harlem sunrise, and the sun cries. (End of song)
- (Music playing)
- (Singing) Silver ships upon the water.
- See them sail along the breeze.
- Children wander through the forest, looking for the trees.
- Someday, when the ships come in, we will all be free.
- Stand beside me by the water looking out to sea.
- See the sail against the sunlight.
- See the sunlight fill the sky.
- If you dare to sail the sunshine,
- careful not to fly too high.
- Someday, when the ship sets sail, we will all be free.
- Come with me and share the sunshine sailing off to sea.
- Taste the magic of the moment.
- Sing a song of birth.
- Come and sail the inner ocean.
- See what life is worth.
- Someday, when we're all together, we will all be free.
- Come and join the last adventure.
- Come and sail the sea.
- Cha, cha, cha, cha, cha, cha, cha.
- Choo, choo, choo, choo, choo, choo, cha.
- Choo,choo, choo, choo, chooka chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka, chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka, chooka, cha.
- Chooka, chooka cha.
- Chooka, chooka, chooka cha.
- Good-bye Good-bye Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Silver ships upon the water.
- Golden dreams beyond the sky.
- If you dare to sail the sunshine,
- don't forget to say good-bye.
- Someday, when the ships come in, we will all be free.
- Stand beside me in the sunshine looking out to sea.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye. (End of song)