Wade In The Water (Feat. Nikki Giovanni)

I want to write an image
Like a log cabin quilt pattern
And stretch it across all the lonely people
Who just don't fit in
We might make a world if I do that
I want to boil a stew
With all the leftover folk
Whose bodies are full of empty lives
We might feed a world if I do that
Twice in our lives we need direction
When we're young and innocent
When we're old and cynical
But since the old refused to discipline us
We now refuse to discipline them
Which is a contemptuous way
For us to respond to each other
I should imagine if nature holds true
One day we'll lose our hands
Since we do no work nor make any love
If nature is true we shall lose our eyes
Since we cannot even now distinguish
The good from the evil
I should imagine we shall lose our souls
Since we have so blatantly put them up for sale
And flooded the marketplace
Thereby depressing the price
I wonder why we don't love
Not some people way on the other side of the world
With strange customs and habits
Not some folk from whom we were sold
Hundreds of years ago
But people who look like us
Who think like us
Who want to love us
Why don't we love them?
I want to make a quilt of all the patches
And find one long strong pole to lift it up
I've a mind to build a new world
Want to play?