I heard a love song just the other day .
It made me think to myself why can't life just be that way.
You read it books , hear it in songs and even see it in the movies .
But I hate to break it to ya here in
the real world Its a different story.
Can't you see it ? ... Look a little closer can you hear it ?
People are crying , people are dying , women are fighting, men are lying . Children are scared , children are crying , people are dying everyone's lying .
You can make up a dream and a fantasy , write about it and call it good , put some paint acrossd it's face.
tie it with a bow made out of lace.
Now it's pretty can't you see
sell it to the world and let it be .
But tell me please can you see ? Look a little closer can't you hear ?
A little boy walks home from school
he's pushed down for not being "cool"
A mother sits alone in the dark, exhausted and tired as she pulls out the bottles cork .
Her Husband lies about being late from work .
A teenaged girl with her fingers down her throat ,
making her self sick from the mental note ,
of the day she had
The girls at school
They called her fat
and she can't live with that
as she Cry's her self to sleep wishing she could end it now.
A group of friends sit laughing at the bar
Their nights cut short from gun shots from afar.
Do you see , Is it any more clear ? Tell me can you finally hear ?
People are crying , people are dying , women are fighting, men are lying . Children are scared , children are crying , people are dying everyone's lying .
It's no longer safe to go alone to the store ,
it's no longer safe to let our kids out the door.
This world we live in is broken pretty badly and we all sit still not moving at all. Who are we waiting for ? Who is finally going to make the call?
We each have a voice that can be used .
We each can be the change together me and you .
We need to fight together instead of hating one another .
How can a nation based on freedom and dreams ,
lose their love and become so mean ?
Take my hand and lets do whats right , put down your pride it doesn't matter who's black and who's white, gay or straight
Lets not become the nation of Hate .
So tell me can you see it, can you finally hear it ?
