I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth
But I was born to privilege just like every white everybody else
And now I am beginning to see that old argument's not so convincing
But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me
Because the system is set up so the system can take all the blame
Then you and I can breath deeply and feel a little less ashamed
Because the system took their land, it took their lives, yeah it took their pride
But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me
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Who we gonna blame for our mistakes
Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes
Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes
So we don't have to pay
I am heiress to the burden of manifest destiny
Because everything that I have was stolen from somebody else just for me
If we could just stomach the truth then maybe the truth would set us free
But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me
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I mean no disrespect to the people who like pawns secured the empire's land
But how can we look at cause and effect and still not understand
Let's get out of the business of pointing our fingers and throwing up our hands
Yeah way, yeah way you know it was me