Manifest Destiny Lyrics - The Return Of The Space Cowboy - Jamiroquai

'Cause I remember 

It was four hundred years or more 

Since you came to crucify 

And they were taken far away from home 

There were promises of paradise 

But if they had been told that day 

That they would be sold this way 

To satisfy the souls of chosen men 

See I had to look carefully 

At the shame of my ancestry 

To redefine the story line again 

Hey, if I was taken for a day and shown another way 

Now every child can learn a different thing 

See I tried a million times but I had to change my mind 

Oh, sadness was the best thing I can bring 

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On the inside he was dead and this is what he said 

As he took away the bloom above the clouds 

Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be 

So destiny will manifest in time 

So where has love all gone? 

A troubled trail of tears will tell the take 

Of how I was put down where I don't belong 

Woman, child and man for sale 

For ethical slavery is just an absurdity 

How can you be alive when you are dead? 

With these chains of hypocrisy, the shame of my ancestry 

Forever stained by blood in which you tread 

Hey, if I was taken for a day and shown another way 

Oh, now every child can learn a different thing 

See I tried a million times but I had to change my mind 

Oh, sadness was the best thing I can bring 

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On the inside he was dead, oh, and this is what he said 

As he took away the bloom above the clouds 

Oh, superiority was clearly meant to be 

So destiny will manifest in time 

So where has the love all gone 

So wanna know where, wanna know where 

Wanna know where, wanna know where 

Somebody tell me where the love has all gone