The tension in the air is swelling like a bubble about to break
Students have shut down univerisities and taken to the streets
The DNC has left Chicago burned and frayed
Cover your eyes
you thin America's recovered from the self inflicted wound it took in 1968?
And still corretta led his people through
the memphis streets, in spite of the nightmare
that was made out of a dream
Young men sent overseas, their names are in a lottery
that kills
There are social clashes, body counts, and rioting
on TV screens
A bullet puts another Kennedy to sleep
Cover your eyes
you thin America's recovered from the self inflicted wound it took in 1968?
And still corretta led his people through
the memphis streets, in spite of the nightmare
that was made out of a dream
So why this disconnect in our youth after 40 years?
Peace tried and failed while the radio played
"As my guitar gently weeps"
Where's the rage in the young towards war and hatred
based on race?
The CIA silenced "The people's new messiah"
and now history repeats.
Are we so blind to see this country hasn't changed?
Cover your eyes
you thin America's recovered from the self inflicted wound it took in 1968?
And still corretta led his people through
the memphis streets, in spite of the nightmare
that was made out of a dream
Students have shut down univerisities and taken to the streets
The DNC has left Chicago burned and frayed
Cover your eyes
you thin America's recovered from the self inflicted wound it took in 1968?
And still corretta led his people through
the memphis streets, in spite of the nightmare
that was made out of a dream
Young men sent overseas, their names are in a lottery
that kills
There are social clashes, body counts, and rioting
on TV screens
A bullet puts another Kennedy to sleep
Cover your eyes
you thin America's recovered from the self inflicted wound it took in 1968?
And still corretta led his people through
the memphis streets, in spite of the nightmare
that was made out of a dream
So why this disconnect in our youth after 40 years?
Peace tried and failed while the radio played
"As my guitar gently weeps"
Where's the rage in the young towards war and hatred
based on race?
The CIA silenced "The people's new messiah"
and now history repeats.
Are we so blind to see this country hasn't changed?
Cover your eyes
you thin America's recovered from the self inflicted wound it took in 1968?
And still corretta led his people through
the memphis streets, in spite of the nightmare
that was made out of a dream