Higher Ground

Lyrics: Stevie Wonder
Music: Stevie Wonder

Sung by the Blind Boys of Alabama with Phil Lesh & Friends in May 2019 as part of "Dead Blues".

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 turnin
'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 my highest ground

Teachers keep on teaching
Preachers keep on preaching
World keep on turning
'Cause it won't be too long

Lovers keep on loving
Believers keep on believing
Sleepers just stop sleeping
'Cause it won't be too long

I'm so glad that 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 my highest ground
Till I reach my highest ground
No one's gonna bring me down
Till I reach my highest ground
Don't let nobody bring you down
God is gonna show you higher ground
He's the only friend you have around