Manifest Destiny

As I remember

It was four hundred years or more

Since you came to crucify

And they were taken far away from home

There were promises of paradise

But if they had been told that day

That they would be sold that this way

To satisfy the souls of chosen men

See I had to look carefully

At the shame of my ancestry

To redefine the storyline again

Hey if I was taken for a day

And shown another way

Now every child can learn a different thing

See I tried a million times

But I had to change my mind

Sadness was the best thing I could bring

On the inside he was dead and this is what he said

As he took away the blue above the clouds

Superiority was clearly meant to be

So destiny will manifest in time

So where has the love all gone

A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale

Of how I was put down where I don't belong

Woman child and man for sale

For ethical slavery is just an absurdity

How can you be alive when you are dead

With these chains of hypocrisy

The shame of my ancestry

Forever stained by blood in which you tread

If I was taken for a day

And shown another way

Now every child can learn a different thing

See I tried a million times

But I had to change my mind

Sadness was the best thing I could bring

On the inside he was dead and this is what he said

As he took away the blue above the clouds

Superiority was clearly meant to be

So destiny will manifest itself in time

So where has the love all gone