Right Now

Lyrics

[Intro: Doris Day] Admit you love me… And so…how am I ever…to know? [Interlude: Lady Essence] To the Muslims, to the Christians To the citizens: I hope you listenin' [Verse 1: Lady Essence] I feel the hate steady balancing this country I just wanna debate and challenge what's in front of me But you tell me, "No," and I should know better than To against the grain, test the brains at the other end Today it is relevant, bitter to the death No forgiveness for the press, they made us witness religion So different from the rest and different from the west And living to accept is harder when your brought up Tryna pick between the left, the right, and the middle What is right? It's a riddle, a struggle within the puzzle Our contrite is so little so effortless; your heaven is A warzone to reverence poor lords: forlorned Wars short on evidence, a quarter for your penitence A penny for ya thought, here's to visiting a history So many have forgot: see them, wearing a burqa? Like me rappin' in Brooklyn, and if it ever happens People chatter, people look, and… [Pre-hook: Lady Essence] She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories [Hook: Lady Essence] They say, "We ain't on the same page" Same class, different race, and the same age But they say, "We ain't same," hey I need change right now, I need change right now (Hey hey) [Verse 2: Lady Essence] They tell me how to think, who to hate, who to love They tell me that we're the same and we relate just because They share my race or have a status that's above And that's where I wanna be, but that space builds up And in the end, I can see eye to eye with A foreigner in shambles with nothing but her silence Maybe we could wander, maybe we could all go Somewhere in Rwanda, somewhere in the Congo? And there's a situation Jersey Shore oughta follow Questioning today prevents wars of tomorrow A torrent of sorrow – put it in your iPod Zero ground for mosques; they lookin' to the sky, God And would you mind, God? Or are you blind, God? If anybody asks, say its O.K. with my God ʻCause, my god, we are burning with hypocrisy If war teaches peace, then learning is a mockery [Pre-hook: Lady Essence] She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories [Hook: Lady Essence] They say, "We ain't on the same page" Same class, different race, and the same age But they say, "We ain't same," hey I need change right now, I need change right now (Hey hey) [Verse 3: Lady Essence] I'm not siding with the liberals or siding with conservatives But more people are dying deciding who deserves to live Tell me whose earth this is, spinning into turbulence I worry who the fury will bury soon as the surface gives And are you nervous kid? I'll tell you just what nervous is Walking onto U. S. soil without your turban hid This ain't a game, yet we treat it like a tournament Pick your home team and cheer amid the current rifts But let me shift, ʻcause, trust me, I support the vets Anyone who dies for a right, I support, and, yet We must examine the panic within the Portland press And understand the disadvantage when we ignore a sect- Ion of our community; usually we collect As a whole and in unity; beautifully, now reflect On a possibility that is near our grasp Equality needs a future, just to clear our path [Pre-hook: Lady Essence] She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories [Hook: Lady Essence] They say, "We ain't on the same page" Same class, different race, and the same age But they say, "We ain't same," hey I need change right now, I need change right now (Hey hey) [Pre-hook: Lady Essence] She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories She isn't I, I isn't she They put us in these category, categories