Silver Spoon Lyrics

Shannon Murray Silver Spoon

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouthBut I was
born to privilege just like every white everybody else
And now I am beginning to see that old argument's not
so convincing
But hey hey no way, you know it wasn?t me
Because the system is set up so the system can take all
the blame
Then you and I can breath deeply and feel a little less
ashamed
Because the system took their land, it took their
lives, yeah it took their pride
But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me
Who we gonna blame for our mistakes
Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes
Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes

So we don't have to pay
I am heiress to the burden of manifest destiny
Because everything that I have was stolen from somebody
else just for me
If we could just stomach the truth then maybe the truth
would set us free
But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me
Who we gonna blame for our mistakes
Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes
Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes
So we don't have to pay
I mean no disrespect to the people who like pawns
secured the empire's land
But how can we look at cause and effect and still not
understand
Let's get out of the business of pointing our fingers
and throwing up our hands
Yeah way, yeah way you know it was me