Some Years Ago
Stevie Wonder

Once upon the blood of many

We were cast as less than any

To so much a point some still believe

Smaller scene, a world much bigger

Where it's okay to play with the word nigger

Yet would we knowing all the grief and death it breeds

But that was some years ago

When we had more hope than money

A time and a world ago

When our hearts were made of steel

Back then it was all about

Stamping all the hatred out

So that now there would be no doubt

Who wouldn't have to heal

But why if so long ago

We're seen safe only when funny

As if there's no need to show

Deep inside what we really feel

Yet those things when brought to view

Seem to bother but a few

No if we don't come for real

Our wounds won't heal

Black silhouettes used as target practice

There's Darkie Toothpaste borne out of this malice

These stereotypical images come to mind

Figurines, mascots, postcards of us hanging

Most recent here, of one of us dragging

The propaganda machine must tell the truth

This time stop lying

But that was some years ago

When we had more hope than money

A time and a world ago

When our hearts were made of steel

Back then it was all about

Stamping all the hatred out

So that now there would be no doubt

Who wouldn't have to heal

But why if so long ago

We're seen safe only when funny

As if there's no need to show

Deep inside what we really feel

Yet those things when brought to view

Seem to bother but a few

No if we don't come for real

Our wounds won't heal

But that was some years ago

When we had more hope than money

A time and a world ago

When our hearts were made of steel

Back then it was all about

Stamping all the hatred out

So that now there would be no doubt

Who wouldn't have to heal

Oh, what if so long ago

We're seen safe only when funny

As if there's no need to show

Deep inside what we really feel

Yet those things when brought to view

Seem to bother but a few

No if we don't come for real

Our wounds won't heal

No if we don't come for real

Our wounds won't heal


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  (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over   A Fool For You   A House Is Not a Home   A Place in the Sun   A Seed's A Star / Tree Medley   A Seed's A Star/Tree Medley   A Seed's A Star\/Tree Medley   A Seed's A Star / Tree Medley   A Time To Love   A Time To Love\/ Bridge Over Troubled Water   A Warm Little Home on a Hill   Ai No Sono   Ai No, Sono   Ain't No Lovin'   Ain't That Asking For Trouble   Ain't That Love   Ain't That Love   Alfie   All Day Sucker   All Day Sucker [*]   All I Do   All I Do (Is Think About You)   All In Love Is Fair   All Is Fair   Angel Baby (Don't You Ever Leave Me)   Another Star   Another Star [Live]   Anything You Want Me to Do   As   As If You Read My Mind   At Last   Ave Maria   Baby Don't You Do It   Baby Don't You Do It   Baby, Don't You Do It   Bang Bang   Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)   Be Cool, Be Calm (And Keep Yourself Together)   Because I Love you   Bedtime for Toys   Beyond the Sea   Big Brother   Bird of Beauty   Bitter Wind In Tanganika   Black Man   Black Orchid   Blame It on the Sun   Blowin In The Wind   Blowin' In The Wind   Blowing in the wind   Boogie On Regae Woman   Boogie on Reggae Woman   Bridge Over Troubled Water   Can I Get a Witness   Can't Imagine Love Without You   Can't Imagine Love Without You   Canzoni Stonate   Canzoni Stonate   Cash In Your Face   Castles in the Sand   Chemical Love   Christmas Time   Christmastime   Cold Chill   Come Back As A Flower   Come Back Baby   Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down   Contract In Love   Contract On Love   Contusion   Contusion ( Instrumental )   Conversation Peace   Creepin'   Creeping   Cryin' Through The Night   Crying Through The Night   Dancing To The Rhythm   Dancing To The Rythm   Dancing To The Rythym   Dark 'N' Lovely   Dark'n'lovely   Day That Love Began   Did I Hear You Say You Love Me   Do I Do   Do I Love Her   Do Like You   Do Yourself a Favor   Do Yourself A Favour   Don't Drive Drunk   Don't Know Why I Love You   Don't Wonder Why   Don't You Know   Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing   Don't Wonder Why   Don't You Know   Don't You Worry 'bout A Thing   Dont You Worry Bout A Thing   Down to Earth   Dream   Drown In My Own Tears   Each Other's Throat   Each Other's Throat   Earth's Creation   Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) ( Instrumental...   Ebb Tide   Ebony & Ivory   Ebony & Ivory   Ebony and Ivory   Ebony Eyes   Ebony Eyes [*]   Ebony Ivory   Ecclesiastes   Edge of Eternity   Everybody Needs Somebody (I Need You)   Everybody's Talkin'   Everyone's a Kid at Christmas   Everything Is Happenin'   Evil   Fademy Love   Faith   Feeding Off The Love Of The Land   Fin   Fingertips   Fingertips - Part 2   Fingertips - Part 2 (live)   Fingertips - Pt. 2   Fingertips (Part 2)   Fingertips Part 1   Fingertips Part 1 & 2   Fingertips Part 1 & 2   Fingertips, Part 1 (first Pressing)   Fingertips, Pt. 2   Fingertips, Pt. 2 [First Pressing][Live]   Fingertips, Pt. 2 [Live]   Fingertips, Pt. 2 [Second Pressing][Live]   Fingertips, Pts. 1-2   Fool For You   For Once In My Life   For Once In My Life [Album Version]   For Once in My Life/Thank You Love   For Your Love   Frankie & Johnny   Frankie & Johnny   Free   From The Bottom Of My Heart   Front Line   Front Line (1982 Musiquarium Version)   Fun Day   Further On Up The Road   Galaxy Paradise   Gangsta's Paradise   Gangsta's Paradise   Get Happy   Get It   Gettin' Used To Being Treated Wrong   Girl Blue   Give Your Heart a Chance   Give Your Love   Go Home   God Bless the Child   Golden Lady   Gotta Have You   Grazin' in the Grass   Hallelujah I Love Her So   Hallelujah, I Love Her So   Happier Than the Morning Sun   Happy Birthday   Have a Talk With God   He's Misstra Know - It - All   He's Misstra Know It All   He's Misstra Know-It-All   He's Mister Know It All   He's Misstra Know-It-All   Heaven Help Us All   Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away   Hello Young Lovers   Hello, Young Lovers   Hey Harmonica Man   Hey Harmonica Man (single Version)   Hey Love   High Heel Sneakers   Higher Ground   Hold Me   Hold On To Your Dream   House on the Hill   How Can You Believe   How Come How Long   How Come, How long   How Will I Know   How Will I Know [duet With Aisha]   I Ain't Gonna Stand For It   I Aint Gonna Stand For It   I Believe   I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)   I Call It Pretty Music But the Old People Call It ...   I Can Only Be Me   I Can't Imagine Love Without You   I Can't Let My Heaven Walk Away   I Can't Let My Heaven Walk Away   I Don't Know Why   I Don't Know Why (I Love You)   I Dont Know Why   I Go Sailing   I Gotta Have a Song   I Hear a Symphony   I Just Called To Say I Love   I Just Called to Say I Love You   I Love Every Little Thing about You   I Love You More   I Love You Too Much   I Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer   I Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer   I Pity the Fool   I Wanna Make Her Love Me   I Wanna Talk To You   I Want My Baby Back   I Was Made to Love Her   I Wish   I Wish [Medley]   I'd Be a Fool Right Now   I'd Cry   I'll Be Loving You Always   I'm More Than Happy (I'm Satisfied)   I'm New   I'm Wondering   I've Got You   I'm New   If Ever   If It's Magic   If She Breaks Your Heart   If You Really Love   If You Really Love Me   If Your Love Cannot Be Moved   Im Wondering   In Your Corner   Isn't She Lovely   Isn't She Lovely   It Ain't No Use   It Don't Take Much   It's More Than You ( Instrumental )   It's Wrong (Apartheid)   It's Wrong Apartheid   It's You   It's You   Jesus Children of America   Joy (Takes Over Me)   Joy Inside My Tears   Jungle Fever   Just Enough To Ease The Pain   Keep Moving Forward   Keep on Running   Keep Our Love Alive   Kesse Ye Lolo De Ye   Kiss Lonely Good-Bye   Kiss lonely goodbye   Knocks Me off My Feet   Knocks Me Off My Feets   Lady Of The Night   Land of La La   Lately   Light My Fire   Lighting Up the Candles   Little Drummer Boy   Livin For The City   Living For The City   Living for the City (1982 Musiquarium Version)   Living For the City [Album Version]   Living For The City [Live]   Living in the City   Look Around   Lookin' For Another Pure Love   Looking For Another Pure Love   Love A Go Go   Love a Go-Go   Love Having You Around   Love Light in Flight   Love's In Need Of Love Today   Love's In Need Of Love Today   Make Someone Happy   Make Sure You're sure   Make Sure You're Sure   Mary Ann   Master Blaster   Master Blaster (Dub)   Master Blaster (jammin')   Maybe Your Baby   Medley: "Never My Love/Ask the Lonely   Moments Aren't Moments   Moon Blue   More than a Dream   Mr Tambourine Man   Mr. Tambourin Man   Mr. Tambourine Man   Ms. & Mr. Little Ones   Ms. & Mr. Little Ones   Music Talks   My Baby's Gone   My Baby's Gone   My Cherie Amor   My Cherie Amour   My Cherie Amour [Live]   My Eyes Don't Cry   My Girl   My Love   My Love Is On Fire   My Love is With You   My Love Sweet Love   My World Is Empty Without You   Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer   Never Give You Up   Never Had a Dream Come True   Never in Your Sun   Ngicuelela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing   Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am Singing   Ngiculela - Es Una Historia\/I Am Singing   Ngiculela (Es una Historia)   Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing   Nothing's Too Good For My Baby   On The Sunny Side Of The Street   One Little Christmas Tree   One of a Kind   Ordinary Pain   Outside My Window   Overjoyed   Overjoyed [Album Version]   Part Time Lover   Part Time Lover [12" Version]   Part-Time Lover   Passionate Raindrops   Pastime Paradise   Pearl   Please Don't Go   Please Don't Hurt My Baby   Please Don't Hurt My Baby   Please, Please, Please   Positivity   Power Flower   Pretty Little Angel   Pretty Little Angel [First Pressing]   Put On A Happy Face   Queen in the Black   Race Babbling   Rain Your Love Down   Red Sails In The Sunset   Redemption Song   Respect   Ribbon in the Sky   Ribbon in the Sky (1982 Musiquarium Version)   Ribbon In The Sky [Live]   Rocket Love   Ruby   Sad Boy   Same Old Story   Satin Doll   Saturn   Saturn [*]   Seasons   Seasons Of Love   Seems so Long   Send Me Some Lovin'   Send Me Some Lovin'   Send One Your Love   Send One Your Love (Music)   Send One Your Love [Instrumental]   Send One Your Love [Vocal Version]   Sensuous Whisper   Serenade   Shelter In The Rain   Shoo Be Doo-be-doo-da-day   Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day   Signed Sealed Delivered   Signed Sealed Delivered [DVD]   Signed, Sealed, Delivered   Signed, Sealed, Delivered (DJ Smash Essential Funk...   Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)   Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm   Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours   Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours   Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours   Silver Bells   Sir Duke   Sir Duke [Live]   Sixteen Tons   Skeletons   Smile   Smile Please   So Amazing   So What The Fuss   So What The Fuss?   Someday at Christmas   Something Out of the Blue   Something to Say   Sorry   Spiritual Walkers   Stay Gold   Stranger on the Shore of Love   Stubborn Kind of Fellow   Sugar   Summer Soft   Sunny   Sunset   Sunshine In Their Eyes   Supersition   Superstition   Superstitious   Superwoman   Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)   Sweet Little Girl   Sweetest Somebody I Know   Swing Low Sweet Chariot   Sylvia   Taboo to Love   Take the Time Out   Take Up a Course in Happiness   Teach Me Tonight   Tell Me Something Good   Tell Your Heart I Love You   Thank You Love   That Girl   That's what friends are for   That's What Friends Are For   The Christmas Song   The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)   The Day That Love Began   The First Garden   The House on the Hill   The Little Drummer Boy   The Lonesome Road   The Masquerade   The Masquerade Is Over (I'm Afraid)   The Miracles of Christmas   The Party At The Beach House   The Secret Life of Plants   The Shadow of Your Smile   The Way You Make Me Feel   The Woman In Red   These three words   These Three Words [Medley]   They Won't Go When I Go   Think of Me As Your Soldier   Time To Love   To Feel The FIRE   To Know You Is To Love You   Tomorrow Robins Will Sing   Too High   Too Shy to Say   Too Shy Too Say   Took It All Away   Travelin' Man   Travelin' Man   Travlin Man   Travlin' Man   Treat Myself   True Love   True To Your Heart   True To Your Heart (single)   Tuesday Heartbreak   Twinkle Twinkle Little Me   Until You Come Back To Me   Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna D...   Uptight   Uptight (Everything's All Right)   Uptight (Everything's Alright)   Uptight (Everything's Alright) [Single Version]   Uptight (Everything\u2019s Alright)   Uptight (everythings All Right)   Used To Be   Venus' Flytrap And The Bug   Village Ghetto Land   Village Ghetto Land [Live]   Visions   Voyage to India   Warm Little Home on the Hill   We Can Work It Out   We Can Work It Out [4 hero mix]   We Didn't Know   We Didn't Know   Weakness   What A Wonderful World   What Christmas Means to Me   What Christmas Means to Metereo Promo Version]   What Might Have Been   What's That You're Doing?   What's That You're Doing?   When You Wish Upon a Star   Whereabouts   Which Way the Wind   With A Child's Heart   With A Child's Heart   With a Song in My Heart   With Each Beat of My Heart   Without A Song   Work Out Stevie, Work Out   Workout Stevie, Workout   Yester-Me Yester-You Yesterday   Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday   Yester-You, Yester-Me, Yesterday   Yesterme yesteryou yesterday   You   You & I   You and I   You and I (We Can Conquer the World)   You and Me   You Are The Sunshine   You Are The Sunshine Of My Life   You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Single Version Wi...   You Are The Sunshine Of My Life [Live]   You Are the Sunshine of My Life [Version]   You Can Depend On Me   You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover   You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover   You Haven't Done Nothin'   You Haven't Done Nothing   You Havent Done Nothin   You Met Your Match   You Will Know   You'll Never Know   You've Got it Bad Girl

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