[00:40.35]As I remember
[00:41.77]It was four hundred years or more
[00:45.84]
[00:47.66]Since you came to crucify
[00:50.68]
[00:52.27]And they were taken far away from home
[00:57.27]There were promises of paradise
[01:01.15]
[01:02.54]But if they had been told that day
[01:05.36]That they would be sold that this way
[01:07.92]
[01:08.43]To satisfy the souls of chosen men
[01:12.59]See I had to look carefully
[01:15.76]At the shame of my ancestry
[01:18.93]To redefine the storyline again
[01:23.06]Hey if I was taken for a day
[01:26.67]And shown another way
[01:29.35]Now every child can learn a different thing
[01:33.86]
[01:34.67]See I tried a million times
[01:37.12]But I had to change my mind
[01:40.20]Sadness was the best thing I could bring
[01:43.70]
[01:44.95]On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
[01:50.33]As he took away the blue above the clouds
[01:54.59]
[01:55.63]Superiority was clearly meant to be
[02:00.74]So destiny will manifest in time
[02:05.15]
[02:07.44]So where has the love all gone
[02:11.38]A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale
[02:15.19]
[02:15.88]Of how I was put down where I don't belong
[02:22.22]Woman child and man for sale
[02:25.09]
[02:26.72]For ethical slavery is just an absurdity
[02:32.53]How can you be alive when you are dead
[02:36.31]
[02:36.92]With these chains of hypocrisy
[02:39.92]The shame of my ancestry
[02:43.26]Forever stained by blood in which you tread
[02:47.12]
[02:48.10]If I was taken for a day
[02:50.64]And shown another way
[02:53.26]Now every child can learn a different thing
[02:56.93]
[02:57.92]See I tried a million times
[03:01.30]But I had to change my mind
[03:04.00]Sadness was the best thing I could bring
[03:07.90]
[03:09.02]On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
[03:13.73]
[03:14.54]As he took away the blue above the clouds
[03:17.93]
[03:19.54]Superiority was clearly meant to be
[03:24.46]So destiny will manifest itself in time
[03:29.00]
[03:31.38]So where has the love all gone
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