Manifest Destiny

Written by jay kay and toby smith



Four hundred years or more

Since you came to crucify

They were taken far away from home

There were promises of paradise

But if they had been told that day

They would be told that this way

To satisfy the souls of chosen man

See i had to look carefully

At the shame of my ancestry

To redefine the storyline again



If i was taken for a day

And shown another day

Every child can learn a different thing

See i tried a million times

But i had to change my mind

Sadness was the best thing i could bring

On the inside he was dead and this is what he said

As he took away the blue above the clouds

Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be

So destiny will manifest in time



So where has all the love gone?

A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale

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 hipocrisy

The shame of my ancestry

Forever strained in blood in which you tread

(repeat chorus)


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