Manifest Destiny

Intro :     ( ) 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