Wish We Could Go Back

[Wish we could go back
To the days where we could
Live the dream
Wish we could go back
To the days when the music
Filled our souls]
But now we are here
In times where we all forgot
About those men
Who have risked their lives
So that we could live
And now we are submerged
In all this grey noise
And now those men
Are crying for our lives
And how all they’ve done
Has now gone down the drain
[Wish we could go back
To the days where we could
Dance their dance
Wish we could go back
To the days where
We could talk their talk]
But now we are here
Forgetting what they have done
And now we are here
Saying our black president
Has shown us the way
And now we are wrong
Because there was MLK
Oh how we are wrong
To have forgotten
All our forefathers
And how we are wrong
To not know where we belong
And how we are wrong
To say we’ve originated here
Oh have we are wrong
To have forgotten Africa
God help us, we are wrong
To not want to remember
[Wish we could go back
To the days we have
Loved ourselves
Wish we could go back
To the days when we could
Sing their songs]
And while we are here
We have destroyed his dream
And now we are here
Living this “hip-hop” life
But why can’t we see
That our history was
Meant for us
And how we have destroyed
Our own sense of self
We need to return
To the days of MLK
And we need to realize
That his words were
More than words
[Wish we could go back
To the days that
Words spoke to us
Wish we could go back
To the days that
We were meant to live]