Bela fleck and the flecktones - The Message lyrics

[Intro] [Verse 1: Victor Wooten] One day I'd like to be rich and famous Maybe be funny like Andy and Amos Be on TV, and sing like Stevie And have a girl who'd never leave me But I'd really like a place where there could be no war A bright and shiny world where there ain't no poor Where there's opportunity, peace and unity Where people can be what they want to be And where Apartheid can never happen again Where people don't judge you by the color of your skin Where I hold your hand, and you hold mine Where a helpful hand is never hard to find A place Where people care, where no one can bear When someone's hungry with nothing there Where the heart is never cold, the young are never needy The old are never poor, and the rich are never greedy So bring the power to the people, the people to the power Cause now is the time, this is the hour To stop thinking about war, start thinking 'bout peace So on this life, we can get another lease With a lesson to learn, a new direction to turn So we can take it to the sky where we belong Cause for too long, we've been too wrong Yeah we got the right notes but we play the wrong song Stop thinking with your wallet, and think with your mind So we can move ahead, instead of behind We got people selling d**, people are dyin' Politicians talking, and you know they're lying Taxes for the poor, none for the rich People starving in America, now ain't that a bummer [Instrumental break] [Verse 2: Victor Wooten] Now we got missles on the ground, lasers in space Underground shelters just in case That something goes boom, certain doom cause in our hearts we didn't make enough room For the love, it comes from up above, let's stop talking war and offer the dove Cause when it's done it's over, when it's over it's done We look back at the wars, and see that nobody won It's time to make a better life for our daughters and our sons Or life will be a blast, pardon the pun [Outro]