World of questions and answers are few
Everybody's got an agenda, yeah
But nobody knows quite what to do
Big men lead from their gray point of view
Marching us toward the darkness
Stumbling over the truth

What’s it gonna take to change things?
How are we gonna turn this tide?
How are we gonna melt the shadows
Before our eyes?

We gotta put the light on the subject
Make the darkness disappear
We gotta put the light on the subject
And the picture will come clear
We gotta bring the truth to the table
See the understanding begin
We gotta put the light on the subject
Be a nation under God again

It looks like freedom, but it feels like chains
Gain the right to speak our minds
And forget to speak God's name
Is it crazy, is it just me?
Wasn't the faith our fathers had
Enough to keep us free?
What’s it gonna take to change things?
How are we gonna turn this tide?
How are we gonna melt the shadows
Before our eyes?

We gotta put the light on the subject
Make the darkness disappear
We gotta put the light on the subject
And the picture will come clear
We gotta bring the truth to the table
See the understanding begin
We gotta put the light on the subject
Be a nation under God again, yeah, yeah

What are we gonna teach our children
When there is no right or wrong?
How are we gonna raise the standard
When the standard's gone?

We gotta put the light on the subject
Make the darkness disappear
We gotta put the light on the subject
And the picture will come clear
We gotta bring the truth to the table
See the understanding begin
We gotta put the light on the subject
Be a nation under God again
We gotta put the light on the subject
(What's it gonna take, what's it gonna take)
Oh, we gotta put the light on the subject
Yeah, we gotta bring the truth to the table
Yeah, we gotta put the light on the subject
Be a nation under God again...