Never Gonna Break My Faith

Aretha.

June 21, 2020

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AP

‘A never-before-heard solo version of the late Aretha Franklin’s riveting and powerful collaboration with Mary J. Blige about faith and race, 2006’s “Never Gonna Break My Faith,” arrived on Juneteenth.’

• You can lie to a child with a smiling face/Tell me that color ain’t about a race. …
  My Lord, won’t you help them to understand/That when someone takes the life of an innocent man/Well they’ve never really won, and all they’ve really done/Is set the soul free, where it’s supposed to be.