I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.

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Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. I saw my brother in a stranger's face. I saw my sister in a smile. My mother's laughter in a

smile. My mother's laughter in a far off place

My father's footsteps in each mile

I thought I knew who my neighbor was.

We didn't need to be redeemed.

Oh, what could I have been thinking of?

Was it all some kind of dream?

I saw my country in the hungry eyes of a million refugees between the rocks and the rise and

tide as they were tossed across the sea.

There was a time when we were at them

just as now they all are we.

Was there an hour when we took them in?

Was it all some kind of dream?

I saw justice with the tattered ham

I saw compassion on the run

But I saw dignity in spite of them I prayed its day would finally come there was a time when we chose our sides.

We refused to live between.

We rose to fight for what we knew was right.

Was it all some kind of dream?

I saw the children in the holding hands

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