they want to know
why my song don’t change
it is my song it go where
I go been through what I been
seen what I seen it by default
know what I know it is my song
how it gone change when life don’t
change it can only change that much
me and my song of storm been out
in the rain falling down holding on
trying to get up letting go can’t take it
no more my song is waiting for you to
pay your dues it has paid over and over
my song is the song of dues paid waiting
for your bill to be paid my song been wandering
passed through Birmingham lived in Mississippi
walked up the 66 into Chicago under the bridges
on the outskirts through shacks and red lined houses
my song strolled in Harlem tried to spread its wings
found itself in St. Louis Pittsburg
my song tried to soar it took the train traveling
in the back it drug tales of cotton
and the lynching tree believing it could be more than it was
it rose up when pressed down exploding angry frustrated
broke on western streets in los angles san francisco oakland
it struggled it stormed it raged it pointed the way out of no way
my song is looking for itself how my song
gone change when ain’t nothing changed
my song know what it know and
that’s what it sing my song is mine
its what I got I wrap in it stand on it stand for
it and it stands for and by me we are our foundation
everybody got to have a home a home need
a strong foundation my song is searching for home
till then it live in my heart keeping the beat
it know what it know
that’s what it sing