Went outside all that I saw was a world of people sleeping on the sidewalk

Looking up hoping for someone to see they had nowhere to live and not enough to eat

My father stooped down to every single face

Tried to offer up some form of solace

A dollar or two or whatever he had

He said no one is safe when everybody lacks

Everyone matters that has to be clear

Everyone is sacred and held quite dear

How is it that some have so much nothing

When all we are is people who want so much something

Everything is equal and everything’s the same and everybody has to pull themselves up by their name and everybody has to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

But how can you do that if you don’t have any bootstraps?

I know someday that you will see

A day when you and I and we can all be free

Free us from the binds of inequality

Racism poverty and misogyny

Enough to eat, a place to sleep, let us live together in peace and harmony

Rising up from the weight of oppression together

Feeling ourselves going on forever

Love flows through you as it flows through me

We are one just like a symphony

Greed and power and the tenets they sway

They hold people hostage in a certain kind of way

They don’t even know they’re puppets on a string

Tied to a system that doesn’t give them anything

So why is the world filled with so much greed

When really we can all have everything we need?

Some folks just think they have and have more

But they end up having less and really they’re poor

They’ve got no friends, nobody to love

Empty words all their things and stuff

It’s really more important to take care of each other

So everyone can have as much as the other

Then we have a safe society

With all people being equal things are very simple

I know someday you will see

A day when you and I and we can all be free

I know someday you will see

A day when you and I and we can all be free