It's Not Working (the Truth) Lyrics - Propaganda

All I want, all I need 

I just want the truth, I just want the truth 

All I want, all I need 

Is to focus on you, is to focus on you 

All I want 

We thought they would take us serious 

And would listen if we ain't furious 

So we painted our picket signs 

And we blessed the due process 

And we learned the Constitution 

And believed in the Bill of Rights 

And learned our country's history 

Like you, we stood against that tyranny 

And survived the three-fifths compromise 

Only to sharecrop and then Jim Crow 

And then red lines and we figured it was high time 

So we organized two by two because we desired service 

We were nervous 

But we deserved to be treated like we were citizens 

And survived them fire hydrants 

And the wild dogs and crooked laws 

Only to get smacked with that war on drugs and crack attack 

But we believed you, made our hashtags and you mocked us 

But we broke our necks just to hold our chins up 

And them anti-gang rallies, they lifted our consciousness up 

But it feel like this ain't real life 

And my American skin won't let me win 

And I'm so tired and I ain't tryna scare you 

But I looked to the sky like "Grandmama I think I failed you" 

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All I want, all I need 

I just want the truth, I just want the truth 

All I want, all I need 

Is to focus on you, is to focus on you 

All I want 

And we though we could be taken serious 

Be all we could be, a rifle and a GI bill 

Army first to desegregate 

Could stand with your countrymen 

Brothers in arms 'cause you got no quams 

We equal rights is that napalm 

And the Marine Corps landed them poor black men out in Berlin 

And they couldn't help but notice the striking resemblance 

Between these Jewish ghettos and the one in they own Chicago 

How a man 'posed to gun tote for a country that don't let him vote? 

Or take down a dictator doing the same thing his own POTUS do 

That riddle alone would ruin your psyche too 

And that nitro tricycling, it got him biting five vicodins 

It's a shame the Cold War vets ain't get no ticker tape parades 

Maybe that's why they alcoholic 

Maybe that's why he womanizing 

Maybe I can forgive my dad for all the years he kept lying 

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All I want, all I need 

I just want the truth, I just want the truth 

All I want, all I need 

Is to focus on you, is to focus on you 

All I want 

Let me tell you what you ain't try 

You ain't try taking into consideration 

That even if change came, you'd still be the same Jason 

Lame Jason, still struggling with patience 

And collecting objects and projects and protests, you ain't try 

You ain't try listening, history a proven track record 

No evil has ever gone unpunished 

And kingdoms come and go and thrones get thrown to oblivion 

And I am not at all shook in any way by Satan 

And you ain't try realizing what you are really running from 

And what you are really fighting for 

It's a frightening indictment 

That even if all these world problems are solved 

It still wouldn't resolve what you are actually looking for 

And it's not like these problems, they don't need to be addressed 

But fixing systemic issues, it ain't the source of your rest 

Or satisfaction, and I know what your life's worth 

But the work of a man's hands, it has never quenched his thirst 

You say I'm King of kings but son, I don't get it how 

You could trust me for eternity but can't trust me for now 

Hoping in a broken system to fix what's broken in us 

It's not working, is it?