Let me know when you begin
To ignore the tinting of my skin
So you can see who it is that we really are
Until that time comes we won't get too far
We will all be standing in the cold and bitter rain
Tied to the past by a hardened chain
And all the victories that we've had will be in vain

The ones you trust are now just telling you lies
Still you listen and then you become
One of the vocal ones who constantly denies
That the truth is all that will stop what's ...  yet to come
Tied to the past by a hardened chain
All the victories we've had will be in vain

But no one seems to really care
About the fact that we are getting nowhere
And we're getting there...
... Faster and faster all the time
The ones who speak the truth might as well be a voiceless mime
Human rights are what we used to hold up so proud
Now we seem bent on pulling the Stars and Stripes over us ...like a shroud

Those countries that we used to help move ahead
Are now looking back to sadly shake their head instead
As they try to focus on what they need to do
Without the help , trust and faith of the red white and blue

And we're standing in the cold and bitter rain
Tied to the past by a hardened chain
And all the victories... That we've had ..will be in vain

Golden Rule was left so far behind
Greed and avarice seems  to have made us blind
Nobody listens but they demand the right to speak their mind
If Diogenes came here today... I'm afraid of what it is that he may not find

And we're standing in  the cold and bitter rain
Tied to the past by  a hardened chain
Willingly letting all of our past victories go down the drain and to be in vain