Manifest Destiny

'Cause 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 this way To satisfy the souls of chosen men See I had to look carefully At the shame of my ancestry To redefine the story line 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 Oh, sadness was the best thing I can bring On the inside he was dead and this is what he said As he took away the bloom above the clouds Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be So destiny will manifest in time So where has love all gone? A troubled trail of tears will tell the take 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 Hey, if I was taken for a day and shown another way Oh, now every child can learn a different thing See I tried a million times but I had to change my mind Oh, sadness was the best thing I can bring On the inside he was dead, oh, and this is what he said As he took away the bloom above the clouds Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be So destiny will manifest in time So where has the love all gone So wanna know where, wanna know where Wanna know where, wanna know where Somebody tell me where the love has all gone