[Intro: Angela Davis & Talib Kweli]
"I was a member of the Communist Party. I'm not a member of the Communist Party, anymore - but I still consider myself very much a socialist. So we'll get to that later."
Let's go
"One of the reasons why the war in Vietnam was able to happen as long as it did - was because this - of this fear of communism. And people pointed to the Vietnamese as their enemy. As if somehow or another, if the country defeated the communist enemy in Vietnam, things were gonna be okay at home."
[Chorus: Meshell Ndegeocello]
But it's a hot night
Let's talk about the sign o' the times
Politics
And the fight of a revolutionary soul singer
It's a hot night
Head down to the club
For the piña coladas
Without the alcohol
And let's talk about the world, y'all
[Verse 1: Meshell Ndegeocello]
Can you pick me up?
You know I hate driving in the evil city
And baby, read my mind, hit La Caridad
So I can get some coffee
And we can get our talk on
Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution
With saviors, prophets, and heroes
But in the silence of my prayers
I had a vision of my hatred dissolving to grains of sand
Realized that to the universe that's all I really am
Just a grain of sand
I don't want to get caught up in all that spiritual shit
But it ain't much to hold onto
We all living in a world built upon
Rape, starvation, greed, need, fascist regimes
White man/rich man democracy
Uh
Suffer in the world trade paradise
Hit me now, come on
"I was a member of the Communist Party. I'm not a member of the Communist Party, anymore - but I still consider myself very much a socialist. So we'll get to that later."
Let's go
"One of the reasons why the war in Vietnam was able to happen as long as it did - was because this - of this fear of communism. And people pointed to the Vietnamese as their enemy. As if somehow or another, if the country defeated the communist enemy in Vietnam, things were gonna be okay at home."
[Chorus: Meshell Ndegeocello]
But it's a hot night
Let's talk about the sign o' the times
Politics
And the fight of a revolutionary soul singer
It's a hot night
Head down to the club
For the piña coladas
Without the alcohol
And let's talk about the world, y'all
[Verse 1: Meshell Ndegeocello]
Can you pick me up?
You know I hate driving in the evil city
And baby, read my mind, hit La Caridad
So I can get some coffee
And we can get our talk on
Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution
With saviors, prophets, and heroes
But in the silence of my prayers
I had a vision of my hatred dissolving to grains of sand
Realized that to the universe that's all I really am
Just a grain of sand
I don't want to get caught up in all that spiritual shit
But it ain't much to hold onto
We all living in a world built upon
Rape, starvation, greed, need, fascist regimes
White man/rich man democracy
Uh
Suffer in the world trade paradise
Hit me now, come on
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