The Gospel of Carlos, Norman and Smith - Rickie Lee Jones

Didn’t you hear?

Black is a criminal

White is a crime

Poison is the pen

Writing down this children’s nursery rhyme

Didn’t you see him standing next to me?

The seeds of change have grown

We don’t have to hide anymore

Lololololololo, that means trouble from the other side

Lololololololo, maybe the trouble of a hopeful heart

It doesn’t take much to see

If you’re looking for an enemy

Greed and apathy

Spell the letters of our name

You sit and laugh at other people

Making money off their shame and sorrow

Waiting for tomorrow to fix itself

Lololololololo, that means trouble from the other side

Lololololololo, maybe the trouble of a hopeful heart

It’s a dark night to feed a stranger

I don’t have enough to feed myself

I keep trying to believe in believing

In something I can’t see

From where I stand

I pull it with my faith

With the smile on my face

It’s gonna take a lot more

Than you might be used to

Who’s to blame for not standing up for them

When it was not in style?

When hope is the color of a man

The color of love is the color that can

Stand for something

Lololololololo, that means trouble from the other side

Lololololololo, may be trouble of a hopeful heart

Lololololololo, the trouble of a hopeful heart

A hopeful heart, it could be a hopeful heart