Come A Long Way - Tanya Stephens

So we come a long way from the chains and the cane fields

A long way from the back o' the bus

Shoulda brought along a little map for the travelling

Seems we've come a long way from us

Squander our money waiting on reparation,

never make plans for retirement day

Who's to be blamed for our lack of preparation now we done spent every dime of our pay

On big pimping, flossing every dollar

we've got on the much less fortunate

Small thinking got us bound tighter

than the chains that we try to forget

refrain:

Tell me now malcom, do we hurt you pride?

Can you hear me now rosa,

was it worth the ride?

Can you see me now marcus

we're still not unified, no we're not

So tell me now martin, is this why you died?

So we've come a long way from picking cotton, many never thought they'd live to see the day when bush pick rice But if all you've become is another house nigga baby tell me was it worth all the sacrifice

Get outa my way while i climb to the top now but be sure to catch me if i fall from grace

Cause heaven forbid

if what i chase should reject me

You know i'm gonna need a warm black embrace

We used to stack guns, prepare for revolution

Was the only way of getting wrong put right

Now we think all our problems

can be solved with shooting

And we've forgot why we started to fight

refrain:

Tell me now malcom, do we hurt you pride?

Can you hear me now rosa,

was it worth the ride?

Can you see me now marcus

we're still not unified, no we're not

So tell me now martin, is this why you died?

So we belittle we bredda so we can seem bigger

Now we so damn proud fi call we self nigga

And being a bad man is good thing

Now being a good man is a bad thing

So it's rich or poor, black or white

Sit and be trampled or get up and fight

After so many years it's still hard to adjust

Even when the front is empty we still move to the back of the bus

refrain:

Tell me now malcom, do we hurt you pride?

Can you hear me now rosa,

was it worth the ride?

Can you see me now marcus

we're still not unified, no we're not

So tell me now martin, is this why you died?