People Lead - Ben Harper

When the people lead

the leaders will have to follow

and all their alibies

they will have to swallow

and it’s you that has the authority

for the one who is right

is the majority

when the people lead

people take the lead

children you’ve got to take your lead

or you shall be led astray

so as long as someone else

controls your history

the truth shall remain just a mystery

for you can lead a horse to the water

but you cannot make him drink

you can put a man through school

but you cannot make him think

when the people lead

people take the lead

children you’ve got to take your lead

or you shall be led astray

watch them try to hide

this world’s imposition

but like disease that has come around

from remission

when it seems

as if it has left your person

all the while it has only worsened

when the people lead

people shall take the lead

children you’ve got to take your lead

or you shall be led astray