Winter In America (Live)

In case you haven't been there lately We have, and the season is back I mean, it was, it was holiday weather for a minute Or when I was just on vacation I'll tell you a story There used to be an agreement between the seasons I mean, after a while they decided to sit down and work it out And they agreed that they were gonna just come and stay About three months each And then they would go to wherever seasons go When they're not where you are And this would be a cycle and it would go on all the time And then one year in America, one of the seasons got mad And decided it was going to stay Decided that the way things were done there made it feel at home He would not, he wouldn't go when he was supposed to I mean it wasn't the people The people runnin' this stuff, you know what I'm sayin' It was something, there was some kind of vibe there Made it feel like it weren't leaving, it was just not, just not gonna go It wasn't in terms of the temperature, it was in terms of the philosophy The politics, the psychology, the way things were going in other directions And so for a long time, where we come from there's no spring And no summer and no fall We have been taken over by the season of ice Very few people recognise it for what it is Although they feel uncomfortable Very few people recognise the fact that somehow the seasons don't change I mean, you can acclimate it, you can politically acclimate it You can philosophically acclimate it You start to, you start to relate everything to the season of ice And so your dreams become frozen, and your ideas become frozen Your promises become frozen in this Frozen days, and frozen nights Frozen aspirations and frozen inspiration There's something wrong, I mean, there's something wrong I mean, there's something wrong, I mean There's something wrong, I mean We'd like to talk to you about a season that is taking over America The season is winter This song is called, "Winter in America" From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures Circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Hey, they've been looking for the rain Just like the cities staggered on the coastline Livin' in a nation that just can't much more Like the forest they buried beneath the highway Never had a chance to grow Well, they never had a chance to grow And now it's winter Come on, sing if you know the words Seemed like winter in America A time when all of the healers done been killed Or been betrayed, say People know that something's wrong Everybody oughta know winter Seemed like winter in America The truth is there ain't nobody fighting Because, well nobody knows what to save Brother, save your soul Lord knows it's winter in America The Constitution, a noble piece of paper With free society Well, they struggled but they died in vain And now democracy is ragtime on the corners On the cord, hoping it'd rain Yes, he's been a-hopin' for some rain But it just don't look like rain And I see the robins, yeah, perched in barren tree tops Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor And like the peace sign that filtered in our dreams That never had a chance to grow Yeah, they never had a chance to grow Somebody want to go tell them it's winter It's cold, it's like winter in America Time when all the healers, people who have done been killed Or been betrayed, say But the people know there's something wrong Hey, it's winter It seems like winter in America The truth is there ain't nobody fighting 'Cause, well nobody knows what to save Aw, sister save your babies Yes, winter in America I said hey, hey, hey It's winter It's cold, it's like winter in America Time when all the healers, brothers who have done been killed And put them in jail, say People know there's something wrong Something wrong with winter It feels like winter in America The truth is there ain't nobody fighting because Well nobody knows what to save Yes and the truth is There's nobody fighting, nobody fighting Nobody knows, nobody knows what to do, what to do The truth is there ain't nobody fighting because Nobody knows what to save Thank you all Thank you, thank you