Manifest Destiny

Four hundred years or more

Since you came to crucify

They were taken far from home

There were promises of paradise

But if they had been told that day

That they would be sold this way

To satisfy the souls of chosen men

See I had to look carefully

At the shame of my ancestry

To re-define the story line again

If I was taken for a day

And shown another way

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 bloom above the clouds

Superiority was clearly meant to be

So destiny will manifest in time

So where has the love all 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 hypocrisy

The shame of my ancestry

Forever stained with blood in which you tread

(repeat chorus)