We started with a ruler 

One that never looked out for our people 

One that looked out for himself 

He took away the rights of Americans 

He had no regard for the life of his citizens 

We ended up with a ruler

He didn't look out for our people 

He only looked out for himself 

He took away the voices of Americans 

He had no regard for the life of his citizens 

Oh how did we end up 

Repeating our mistakes?

Ignorance and hate 

Put us back in the same place 

We were lead through a path 

One that did not lead us to freedom 

One that did not lead us to love

One that lead us to division 

One that lead us to hate

We find ourselves in a country

Where one can not love thy neighbor

One can not put aside differences 

One can not speak their words 

For fear of individuality and uniqueness  

For fear rubber bullets and tear gas

The thought of death 

Is a daily thought for the people of America

Watching the fluctuating numbers 

Going up and going down 

The death of sweet old lucy 

Is just a number in the textbooks now

A movement spread across America

Signs of strength and courage 

Showed themselves in big cities across the country

Just to be ignored 

Just to be silence 

Equality was shattered 

With the click of a gun 

With the knee of a cop 

With the lock of the handcuffs

The coward

Who was supposed to pull our country 

To pull our people 

Out of the dark depths of poverty

Of inequality

Of the death of sweet old Lucy 

Putt on a green golf course 

But we opened our eyes 

We climbed out of the dark depths 

Of the deaths and the poverty and the inequality

We took the rubber bullets and suffered through the tear gas

We worked together to make a change 

Now look where we are 

Different nationalities, orientations, genders

Look at the future with a new hope 

A hope for equality

A hope for sweet old Lucy to live a couple of years more

This hope lands in the hands of the youth.