Years have gone by and still tears seem persist
As a whole race of people are hushed by a cracking whip
The voice of one man with power challanges this
And the reality of slavery is said to no longer exist
But are these things really true when the conscious of a man
Is being beaten down because equality's not at hand
And he's forced to walk alone
And tell his kids that race is damned
Yet watch them go to seperate schools
And live underneath the whiter man
But then one day we see hope rise
Even though that they were all vastly criticized
They chose to stand up for their hopes and their dreams
And fight against all the white man's schemes
They began to march and leave their marks
With Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
They changed the nation so that it could truely be
The home of the brave and the land of the free
Though today we all know it and while some reminisce
We now live in a country with a black president
So I guess that the saying holds true to this day
That the night is the darkest before the brighter day