Lyrics
How many times will it take
For us to put it away
For us to quit all the hate,
The drug we're under?
How many times can we say
"Not everyone's built the same"
For us to rise and berate
The drug we're under?
Ooh whoa ooh whoa,
Ooh whoa ooh whoa,
Ooh whoa ooh
We're addicted to the gaslight
Ooh whoa ooh whoa,
Ooh whoa ooh whoa,
Ooh whoa ooh
I have never seen it shine this bright
How long will we hold
Onto something so cold
Onto something so bold
As injustice?
How long will we fight
For the systemic right
To walk the streets
Without needing a purpose?
How long until we see
This is about you and me
And preventing further bleeding
Of a lifetime of screaming
And all of the pain,
All the lies and all the shame
The guilt and all the drama,
All the years of all the trauma,
And the abuse
So much abuse...
How free can we be
When we are systemically
Built on the ideology
Of injustice?
Like everything is great
But it couldn't have been that great
If some already ate
While some didn't have a plate
On stolen lands
The stolen grants
With stolen plants
And stolen hands
The beating down
The breaking up
The silencing
The shutting up
The instigating
The separating
The masquerading
The demonstrating
The criminalization
The hesitation
A united nation
With segregation.
And I'm not saying that it's ever gonna go away
It would just be worth it to try and lessen it in any way
We have to work together if we're gonna see this thing through
Challenge all those biases that live in me and you.
And I'm not gonna sit here and act like I'm all-knowing
But I know how I feel about injustice,
It's showing.
It'll be a long journey and it's one I'm willing to make,
'Cause we're all living on a rock in the middle of space.