SHARED by LUTHER

One Morning In Cincinnati

I woke up,
One Morning in Cincinnati

What a wonderful day,
In a wonderful city

Spring, 1983,
One Morning in Cincinnati

Flooded with my realities of
Happiness, good friends, 
and the hopes for another great day…
Just a perfect time to be alive

What joy…
Play the music…
One Morning in Cincinnati

A bizarre silence sits on the city…
One Morning in Cincinnati 

One Morning in Cincinnati,
Telephone calls

Turn on the news
What?
Turn on the news

Confusion, fear, and more confusion,
One Morning in Cincinnati

An announcement, 
One Morning in Cincinnati,
One Morning…Across the Country

“Rare cancer seen in homosexuals”

What did he say?

“Homosexuals dying of an unusual disease”

What did she say?

More bizarre silence

One Morning in Cincinnati,
I woke up,
We all…woke up

One Morning,
Across the country
No answers…
One Morning in Cincinnati,
No answers…

What?
No answers.

Doctors, Nurses, Hospitals,
Doing their best.
What?
We just don’t know.
What?
They just do not know.

What do I do?

Stop the music,
Stay away…
Just stay away.

What?
Wake Up!

One Morning in Cincinnati, 
Freedom…long in coming,
Gone…like a thief in the night.
Gone…with an announcement from a stranger…

“Rare cancer seen in homosexuals”

One Morning in Cincinnati,
One friend sick,
Another friend sick,
Another friend gone

One Morning in Cincinnati,

One Morning in Cincinnati, 
One Afternoon in Cincinnati,
One Evening in Cincinnati,
Another friend,
Another friend,
And still…another

Stand still!
Stop the music!
Stop the dance! 
Just stop!

One Morning in Cincinnati,
Like One Morning in Every City,
The tears continue to fall

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