People have lead the nation with a microphone
People lead the nation with a microphone
People will lead the nation with a microphone

Please let me be
One of those chosen few
To take up that plastic
To breath into it
To let my voice amplify

Let me be one of them who leads

I can lead them to see
something putrid and disgusting.

I can try to make them see the light
I can try to make them see what they’ve done
I want them to hear me

I need them to listen
on this stage on this night
make them see how its gonna be
alright.

be their hope
bring them up help them
since they cant do enough
for those people
out on the middle ground

the ones without voices
the ones without shame
the ones who take what’s given to their face
its too late

no more of this can
cuz tonight somehow you’ll see
ill make them measure up
ill make them listen

they’ll take their eyes away from the neon gods they made
they’ll have to look at me over here up in this dream

I want to know how to speak
I want them to feel the speech
I want them to drop their guns

I want them to see the peace

No more of “try”
No more of “can”

It’ll happen just you wait and see
Once you give me that mic
My words will take flight

Ill give them the clairvoyance they need
Ill give them the rationality I have
I gift whatever it takes
To make them see
the way how things should be

If I could lead the nation with a microphone,
Something mainly o plastic,
Something to amplify a sound

If I could acquire
Such a device
That let my words fly into their brains
Implant the seeds of peace
Tranquility and silence.

Implanted messages would burn
Holes into their brains
Of things we need to change

Simply coded things
Are something they could see

Nations joining
Without shooting

People sleeping
without fearing

A place a child could grow up
A world where we could all be
something