Wellstone - Soul Khan, Akie Bermiss

Sha la la la la la

Live for today

I wake up, put the brush to my busted teeth

Day one of these lucky luxuries

Now I wake up whenever it comforts me

Sit down on the train on a dusty seat

Into the city where they hustle, cheat

Just to eat a more supple meat

Why pay for the cow when the tongue’s for free

I’mma save the world so my first son can see

Might find the door but never touch the key

They get tricked by slick Mike Huckabee

All my old ways now seeming dumb to me

But you’d have probably done the same when you was young as me

I’m taking every shot til the buzzer beeps

And touching every base til I scuff my cleats

Been nice since I was in dungarees

So when it’s all said and done, I’mma fuck and feast

And we walk

And we fall

And we all

Must live for today

Now I used to play with them little army men

Until I really learned what an army meant

Got fans that are uniformed guardians

And they all got family that longs for them

I don’t wanna hear another word from Barack

Til he turns up the clock and brings them home

They’re needed more here

Where the people don’t fear the next moment something explodes

And we’re still torturing;

damn, it feels fraudulent

To lie that we more righteous than the people that we war against

The audience is partying with all the best intoxicants

As their fellow humans smell the fumes of dead and rotten flesh

So I go to sleep, then open each

My eyes to find that no one seems

To care about the slowly creeping

Ocean sea that’s growing deeper

Oh, you just be hating Soul

Cause they’re too cold like the H2O

Where the glaciers float

Wait, wait, where’d the glaciers go?

Never mind -- your brain’s too slow

Sorry if I’m not believing

What you taught to stop the heathens

And really, if there’s karma

Why did they leave Gandhi bleeding?

I ain’t trapped within the lines of any kind of palm you reading

This is my life, and I’mma live it like I’ve always dreamed it

My vision of a just society is that every person

Every small child should have the same chance to reach their full potential

To me, that’s the American dream, that’s the goodness of our country

But we have still a fairly long ways to go

For our country to really live up to that promise

If we’re gonna have the kind of change in our country

That’ll make the United States of America a better America

I guarantee you, it’s gonna be the results of much more grassroots politics

Much more grassroots leadership development

Much more of a voice from people from the neighborhoods and the community