HOW DID WE GET HERE?
THE FOUNDATION IS CRACKED. THERE’S A HOLE IN THE WALL.
THE RIVER IS FLOODED, AND THERE’S NO ONE TO CALL.
WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE, WHEN THE PAST HAS BEEN ERASED.
YOUR FREEDOMS GONE AND THE RULE OF LAW DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE.
{HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? WHAT ARE YOU GONNA’ DO?}
WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU.
WE TOOK THIS LAND FROM THE INDIAN, MADE THE BLACKMAN WORK THE FIELD.
NOW WE’RE AT THE CROSSROADS AND NOBODY WANTS TO YIELD.
THERE’S FIRE RAGING, OUTSIDE AND WITHIN.
THE BURNING CROSS OF OUR ORIGINAL SIN.
GENOCIDE AND SLAVERY, SEALED THIS COUNTRY’S FATE.
SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE, THAT’S WHAT MADE US GREAT.
{HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? WHAT ARE YOU GONNA’ DO?}
WHEN THE COME FOR YOU.
THERE’S A HOLE IN YOUR HEART THAT YOU CAN NEVER FILL.
YOU NEVER LEARNED TO LOVE, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S REAL.
DELUSION IS YOUR REALITY, LYING IS YOUR CREED.
BIGOTRY AND HATRED, THAT’S YOUR DEEPEST NEED.
YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT ANYONE, ONE SICK SON OF A BITCH.
PEOPLE DYING EVERYDAY SO YOU CAN BE MORE RICH.
THE DITCH IS DRY AND THE CROPS ARE BURNING, SUN GETS HOTTER EVERYDAY.
THERE’S A CRY FOR HELP FROM YOUR NEIGHBORS DOOR AND YOU JUST TURN AWAY.
THE FOUNDATION IS CRACKED, THERE’S A HOLE IN THE WALL.
WHEN THE ROOTS ARE ROTTEN, THE TREE IS GONNA’ FALL.
GENOCIDE AND SLAVERY, THIS COUNTRY IS A WRECK.
WHEN THERE’S TALK OF REPARATIONS, YOU PUT YOUR KNEE ON HIS NECK.
HOW DID WE GET HERE…
SOMEBODY CARES FOR YOU
TAKE ME WHERE THE MOON LIVES
Little By Little, Again and Again, lyrics
Why?
It all begins with an idea.