Here's a longer quote (perhaps the whole song) from Women and Leadership in the Baptist Convention of South Africa by Nelson Hayashida (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2005), page 21:


Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn't been opened.
Sometimes I wish I could no longer see
All of the pain, the hurt and the longing
Of my sisters and I as we try to be free.

Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn't been opened.
Just for an hour, how sweet it would be
Not to be struggling, not to be striving,
But just sleep securely in our slavery.

But now that I see with my eyes, I can't close them,
Because deep inside me somewhere I'd still know
The road that my sisters and I have to travel.
My heart would say yes, and my feet would say go!

Sometimes I wish my eyes hadn't been opened
But now that they have, I'm determined to see
That somehow my sisters and I will be one day
The free people we were created to be.


[Some web sites give the title SOMETIMES I WISH, with this attribution:

Words and Music By Carole Etzler, 1974 published by Sisters Unlimited, RR 1 Box 1420, Bridgeport, VT 05734.]