DESCRIPTION:
Interpret Goapele
Album: "Change it all" (Skyblaze/Columbia/SBMG Records, 2005)
Title:"Change it all"
Songwriters: Michael Louis Aaberg; Goapele Mohlabane

Goapele has performed at rallies, demonstrations and various political events around the world from Cuba to South Africa. On September 14, 2006, the California-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights honored Goapele with its first ever Human Rights Cultural Hero Award[24] during the Center's 10th Anniversary Celebration, titled "Tribute to a Dream."

Lyrics:

They're closing all the schools down
Some teachers work for free now
And libraries won't be found
Cause there's not enough

Can you see a change in your town
Small business close it's talked about
I'm trying to sort it out
What we're giving up

Basically
There are people left out
From living
Comfortably can we figure it out
I've been waiting
Restlessly for the words to a song
That would
Change it all
Change it all
Change it all

I never found a 9 to 5
That was worth it from my soul
Til I
I pursued what brought joy in my life
And there's something for us all

And I still think it is my right
And it's the last and one of few
To get the luxury for learning
Something I could use

Basically
There are people left out
From living
Comfortably can we figure it out
I've been waiting
Restlessly for the words to a song
That could
Change it all

So many laws are changing
They say it's the price for war
We send over at least ? billions
It's hard to believe that years ago people died to fight
But history feels so far away
History feels so far away
We're not fighting for our lives anymore
You're not fighting for my life anymore
It's hard to know what's really worth fighting for
Or is it killing and dying on the streets

Basically
There are people left out
From living
Comfortably can we figure it out
I've been waiting
Restlessly for the words to a song
That could
Change it all

Basically
There's enough for us all
So
Why can't we somehow figure it out
I've been waiting
Restlessly for the words to a song
That could
Change it all
Change it all
If a song could change it all
What if we could change it all