Oh love is a fearsome thing It pays no mind to the colour of your skin or your gender Love is so powerful fierce and tender And flies on its own sweet wing Oh love is a fearsome thing. In the state of Mississippi In the town called Meridian There are two little boys .who live with their Grandma Cause Mama has married a black man And the lawyer says immoral and the judge says unfit mother And in the best interest of the children They'll live with their grandma In the land of the free In the land of the free In the land of the free And in states and nations all over this planet There are men who love in the dark To avoid the police who would kill their affection and the lawyer says immoral And the judge says unfit humans And in the best interest of the people of the statewe'll confine them to prison In the name of the free In the name of the free In the name of the free And those who fear it most of those who've never known the power who've never known the hour of their passion strong and deep So in the fear and hatred they turn their faces from it Can't even look upon it sweep them off their feet. Cause they know that...