People keep on learning, Soldiers keep on warring, World keep on turning, 'Cause it won't be too long. Powers keep on lying While your people keep on dying, World keep on turning, 'Cause it won't be too long.
I'm so darn glad He let me try it again, 'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin. I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then, Gonna keep on trying till I reach the highest ground.
Teachers keep on teaching, Preachers keep on preaching, World keep on turning, 'Cause it won't be too long. Oh no. Lovers keep on loving While believers keep on believing, Sleepers just stop sleeping, 'Cause it won't be too long. Oh no.
I'm so darn glad He let me try it again, 'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin. I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then, Gonna keep on trying till I reach the highest ground.
And Stevie knows that, uh, nobody's gonna bring me down (Till I reach the highest ground) 'Cause me and Stevie, see, we're gonna be a sailing on the funky funky sound (Till I reach the highest ground) Busting out and I'll break you out, 'cause I'm sailing on (Till I reach the highest ground) Just uh, sailing on, sailing on the higher ground (Till I reach the highest ground).