Change
Can't keep livin' like: you and yours, me and mine
Can't keep livin' large pretending it's all just fine
Truth veiled by the phrase: fate can be unfair
What if we fought for Change, not the kind that's spare?
It's been said before the life we live is like a race
But everbody's got a predetermined starting place
Ready, set, Boom! Two steps, you're done you've won!
Ready, set, Boom! No steps: killed by the starting gun
People live their lives based on who they were born to
Born middle, born rich, future ahead of you
Born poor? That's the dark side of the establishment
A death sentence, call it capitalist punishment!
Money is everything there is no doubt
How much and what cost? is what life's about
Our answer to that, creates the path, the way
So tell me what does that say about our world today?
Where buying things is less about expressing personality
More about highlighing supposed superiority?
Where we're happily chugging champagne for fun
While the thirsty shrivel to dead raisins in the sun?
Can't keep livin' like: you and yours, me and mine
Can't keep livin' large pretending it's all just fine
Truth veiled by the phrase: fate can be unfair
What if we fought for Change, not the kind that's spare?
"Hey! that's why we have these charities
That's the way we eliminate all of the disparities"
How's that worked out for us? not great
Poles pulling tighter, the fabric might disintegrate
Often about flashing the cash, how much you got?
Society's approval, the goodwill is an afterthought
Fundraisers let's show everybody what we're going to do
And yeah save someone from the pain they were going through
We need to build upon, real charity
To combat humanity's inevitable disparities
For there will always be the talented, the gifted, the few
Time, place, race, regardless: always true
Valued more by the world they rise
Above all
But those not valued cannot be pushed to fall
Into the vicious cycle that we have always known
We can't keep peddling along and continue to condone
The condemnation of innocent generations
Fighting the system on its own terms? hallucination
The true fight must begin, no hesitation
Using our power for this change is an obligation
Not just writing cheques, and giving things away
More than our money, the world needs us today
So let who we are, what we do, our ambition
Be determined by the goal of ending this tradition
It may be idealistic, but this is it
'Cause what does it mean to live in a tower of gold, if it's built on an island of shit?
Can't keep livin' like: you and yours, me and mine
Can't keep livin' large pretending it's all just fine
Truth veiled by the phrase: fate can be unfair
What if we fought for Change, not the kind that's spare?
Can't keep livin' large pretending it's all just fine
Truth veiled by the phrase: fate can be unfair
What if we fought for Change, not the kind that's spare?
It's been said before the life we live is like a race
But everbody's got a predetermined starting place
Ready, set, Boom! Two steps, you're done you've won!
Ready, set, Boom! No steps: killed by the starting gun
People live their lives based on who they were born to
Born middle, born rich, future ahead of you
Born poor? That's the dark side of the establishment
A death sentence, call it capitalist punishment!
Money is everything there is no doubt
How much and what cost? is what life's about
Our answer to that, creates the path, the way
So tell me what does that say about our world today?
Where buying things is less about expressing personality
More about highlighing supposed superiority?
Where we're happily chugging champagne for fun
While the thirsty shrivel to dead raisins in the sun?
Can't keep livin' like: you and yours, me and mine
Can't keep livin' large pretending it's all just fine
Truth veiled by the phrase: fate can be unfair
What if we fought for Change, not the kind that's spare?
"Hey! that's why we have these charities
That's the way we eliminate all of the disparities"
How's that worked out for us? not great
Poles pulling tighter, the fabric might disintegrate
Often about flashing the cash, how much you got?
Society's approval, the goodwill is an afterthought
Fundraisers let's show everybody what we're going to do
And yeah save someone from the pain they were going through
We need to build upon, real charity
To combat humanity's inevitable disparities
For there will always be the talented, the gifted, the few
Time, place, race, regardless: always true
Valued more by the world they rise
Above all
But those not valued cannot be pushed to fall
Into the vicious cycle that we have always known
We can't keep peddling along and continue to condone
The condemnation of innocent generations
Fighting the system on its own terms? hallucination
The true fight must begin, no hesitation
Using our power for this change is an obligation
Not just writing cheques, and giving things away
More than our money, the world needs us today
So let who we are, what we do, our ambition
Be determined by the goal of ending this tradition
It may be idealistic, but this is it
'Cause what does it mean to live in a tower of gold, if it's built on an island of shit?
Can't keep livin' like: you and yours, me and mine
Can't keep livin' large pretending it's all just fine
Truth veiled by the phrase: fate can be unfair
What if we fought for Change, not the kind that's spare?
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Writer(s): Raoul Kerr
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