Where Do We Go From Here lyrics

They say that you're righteous

when you know that you're down.

You fight for your right to win

because your freedom-bound.

We took on the man back day,

displayed no fear.

My people had something to say:

Where do we go from here?

I wonder what Lumumba would say.1

I wonder what Allende would say.2

I wonder what Malcolm would say.3

I wonder what Ernesto might say.4

Don't stray (We came such a long way) too far away,

Remember what they say (yeah)

you are, you are responsible!

We made you the government,

thought the fight would end.

Now you're changing the covenant

acting just like them.

You're part of the system now

that you wanted to change.

Got you to wondering

how history will speak your name?

I wonder what Nesta would say.5

I wonder what Kwame would say.6

I wonder what Mao would say.7

I wonder what Rosa might say.8

Don't stray (We came such a long way) too far away,

Remember what they say (yeah, yeah)

you are, we are responsible!

Now the time for us has come

to reassess just what we're facing.

Now that the movement's come undone

who'll straighten out the situation?

I wonder what Kenyatta might say.9

I wonder what Marcos might say.10

I wonder what Stokely might say.11

I wonder what Sisulu might say.12

I wonder what Touré might say.13

I wonder, I wonder what Clara might say.14

I wonder, I wonder, yeah!

Where do we go from here?

1. Patrice Émery Lumumba (July 2, 1925 - February 11, 1961) was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960.2. Salvador Allende Gossens (July 26, 1908 - September 11, 1973) was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections3. Malcom X, born Malcolm Little (May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.4. Ernesto "Che" Guevara (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, and a major figure of the Cuban Revolution.5. reference unknown6. Kwame Nkrumah (September 21,1909 – April 27, 1972), oversaw Ghana’s independence from British colonial rule in 1957 and a founding member of the Organization of African Unity.7. Mao Zedong (December 26, 1983 - September 9, 1976) was the architect and founding father of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, governing until his death in 1976.8. Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist in Germany.9. Jomo Kenyatta (October 20, 1893 - August 22, 1978) was an African socialist and considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.10. Ferdinand Marcos (September 11, 1917 - September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician who held the title of President of the Philippines from 1965-1986.11. Stokely Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a black activist in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement.12. Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (May 18, 1912 – May 5, 2003) a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress.13. unknown14. Clara Zetkin (July 5, 1857 – June 20, 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist and advocate for women’s rights.