Change We Can Believe In - Sandy Griffith, Paris

Listen, baby

Let’s talk about this life and what it means to me

Baby, listen

This how it’s got to be

We only thought that you would come and turn these wrongs to right

But we see it’s really all the same

Who knew that you’d disgrace us

White power in blackface us

Our eyes were closed

But now we all could see

Lookin' at the parties like, damn, what’s the parties like

Just seems all the parties' right

Now I’m lookin' round wonderin'

What the hell has happened to us, it’s on again

Just misery, so many promises

So many of us tried to make him what he really wasn’t

Still suffering' so many unemployed

Still watchin, NSA’s got me paranoid

Make me wanna holler, throw my hands up

Got us thinking' that we wrong if we demand stuff

So we propped the man up, but what’d it get us?

More useless excuses and more fed up

Sounds so sweet when he makin' speeches

Always preachin' hope and change like he really means it

Manchurian Candidate

Ladies love to hear him talkin' cause he’s so slick

We sing it, but they never really understand, no they don’t, no

We bring it, but they never seem to take a stand, no they won’t, no

We mean it, better know they really ain’t your friend, and they’ve shown it

So believe in me, believe in, believe in

Dear Mr. President, wartime president

Slicker than his predecessor, but it’s still the same shit

Lost jobs, lost benefits

Lost public option, lost souls follow quick

Lost all respect for that shit he selling

Same conflicts, but his reason ain’t compelling

Same cause, same manufactured boogeymen

Same bombs drop when his poll numbers dip

Same profiteering — War’s good for business

Same Israel nut-jockin' - shit is endless

Same wall street bailouts, early christmas

For the same motherfuckas that should be in prison

Same racism, nothing changed bro

Wingnuts wanna point and say «I told you so»

We both hate his shit, but for different reasons though

They hate cause he black, we hate cause he wrong

We sing it, but they never really understand, no they don’t, no

We bring it, but they never seem to take a stand, no they won’t, no

We mean it, better know they really ain’t your friend, and they’ve shown it

So believe in me, believe in, believe in

Shiiiit, so I’ll say it all again man

Same shit, different day, all the same man

Same news cycle, same yapping' magpies

Same gats clapping' overseas taking lives

Now they say I’m hatin' cause I pulled his skirt

Same people that done lost they house and outta work

Got the nerve to think that I’m speaking' outta line

Can’t criticize cause he 'posed to be my kind

But scared negroes won’t rock the boat

Same Bush-era tax cuts, same drones

Same folks on lock, Guantanamo

Same campaign stops, same shitty jokes

Cracked while the world gets choked on

And most black folk broke but still hold on

To the illusion of choice

Both parties, both sides of the same bullshit coin

We sing it, but they never really understand, no they don’t, no

We bring it, but they never seem to take a stand, no they won’t, no

We mean it, better know they really ain’t your friend, and they’ve shown it

So believe in me, believe in, believe in