My Eyes Have Seen a Better Way

Rhythm cutting through the artificial fog
TV newspapers lying like a Dog
Press that noxious Hum into your Mind
Make you feel like what the hell’s the use in trying

What you see surely ain’t what you get
Stripped down truth keep you chompin at the bit
Reduced to a number in a buyers sellers hail
Pool ball on the table Just bumpin off the rails

2)
Hidden dictators they got it all figured
While hired reptiles spit out the facts and the figures
Implacable to the poor
To the rich they’re just whores
Bom Bombastic basturd laws
Firmly behind all the Ra Ra Ra
Designed to confuse when the chips are all down
Cuz it’s all smoke and mirrors in the Devil’s Playground.

3)
When did cruelty and torture become
The badge of courage…the rule of thumb
Guess the leadership done become a dealership
For the Demons of Greed
Cuz only the spineless feed on those who Bleed
I know your shakin inside
Cuz you try so hard to hide
You know only that house can stand that be built by the Lord
Not your lying…your scheming…and your visionless dreaming
Hear me Now
Your lying…your scheming…and your visionless dreaming
And its time for you to get out the way Now
Cuz we comin on board



(Chorus)
Gather up to the roof of this jail
Take a better look at what will prevail
Say good-by to those who make you a slave
How ya gonna dance with your feet in the grave
Walkin like the Man upon the waves

A Little mercy…you’ll be amazed
Cuz everyone will see the right from the wrong way
Little faith going to bring back the good days
My eyes have seen a better way
My eyes have seen a better Way… yeah yeah

4)
TV newspapers owned by the Blind man
Spread their lies all across this land
Divide and Conquer is the name of the game
They say you’re my enemy
I say you’re my brother

And the man of god is nothing but a fraud
When he tells you to kill for some principalitized corporation’s
cheap thrills
Yeah your castles in the air look real good up there on the marquee
But your mouth is shut when it comes to the admission fee
Well we not as dumb as you look
We can read it all just like a book
So you can make it ramble
Or you can make it scramble
But truth is like a compass needle pointing to the North
Just what is it you think you can hide
When we looking from the Source

But ya know…what goes around comes around
Is the only rule on this playground
And it only takes the Faith of a mustard seed
To bring it down




(Chorus)
Gather up to the roof of this jail
Take a better look at what will prevail
Say good-by to those who want to make you a slave
How ya gonna dance with your feet in the grave
Walkin like the Man upon the waves

A Little mercy…you’ll be amazed
Cuz everyone will see the right from the wrong way
Little faith going to bring back the good days
My eyes have seen a better way
My eyes have seen a better Way yeah yeah


(B-section Meditation)

Everywhere I go I here people say
Heaven is not that far away
Soul of man and woman is greater than their fate
We could bring to Earth those Pearly gates

And through that doorway I saw unfurl
Nothing less than a brand new world
All the aches now seem worthwhile
Through the Long and Lonely trial

No more dark pretense of hate
Soft the rictus on Love’s face
Swallowed in wisdom’s mesh
Gone the gain & gone the debt

Set out in this nascent land
Open heart and open hand
On your brow we place the crown
Hear and Now the Song is found.

(Chorus)
Gather up to the roof of this jail
Take a better look at what will prevail
Say good-by to those who want to make you a slave
How ya gonna dance with your feet in the grave
Walkin like the Man upon the waves


A Little mercy…you’ll be amazed
Cuz everyone will see the right from the wrong way
Little faith going to bring back the good day
My eyes have seen a better way
My eyes have seen a better Way yeah yeah

Right now Today


Words and music by:

George Craig McMillian  2008