Hidden Agenda Lyrics

American exceptionalism – driven by miseducation

Abridgement of the truth – ignores sins of our ancestry

Imparted myths, retold lies – Shattered promises and repeated backslides

Systemic ethnocentrism at the nation's inception

History taught poor claims with nothing to improve

We see the effects so vividly - Ignorance blinded so willfully

Hawaiian stolen kingdom

Trail of forgotten tears

No more white washing the truth

Generations of scars – inequality

Writings chiseled on the wall

We need a changing of the guard

American amnesia

Stalls the progress of society

Remember the Alamo

Columbus's discovery

Chronicles of conquest

Exploitation – Manifest Destiny

Answers from our past

Find solutions of our time

Re-shape the narrative

So we're not recalcitrant to change

We have in ourselves the power to change

But to make this change

We have to start with ourselves