Hey ya, hey ya

Yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Oh yesterday…

Listen to what I got to say

About yesterday

Hey mon, hey mon

Listen to what I got say

About yesterday

Villages are good

But they won’t last

Oh last

For another day

Oh yeah villages are good

But they won’t last

Like yesterday

Can hear the children cry

While their tearful mothers

Sing a lovely lullaby

But it won’t last

Mothers will be gone someday

Like yesterday

Like yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Oh yesterday….

The crops look bad

And the eagle is sad

He looks as if he is glad

But the drought he is mad at

Today just as yesterday

The sun is burning

Children have stop learning

Food they’re yearning

The hungry faces the parents are seeing

Today just like yesterday

War has broken out

No end to this hot drought

Water out of sight

Villages are raided in the night

Cries out in pain

The villages all sing

To the moon and the stars

Their dreams sunk in tar

Today just like yesterday

Preacher has lost hope

Gave up on the pope

Religion is all gone

Blind from looking into the sun

Today just like yesterday

The people shout

All about

The eagle soars

Nevermore

And today

Is just like yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Oh yesterday

Imagine there is help

The elders all shout

Before they die

Under the blazing sky

Who do I talk of?

The eagle or the dove

Which one has it best?

The eagle is at rest

So is peace

Declared the priest

I talk to myself in a way

Goodbye to another day

They are starving by the fire

Their leaders are all liars

Care about for only for me

Dream some day just dream

That maybe we’ll have a community

Like one just like those democracies

Oh why

Oh why

Is it like yesterday?

I’ll tell you why

Oh why

Because there isn’t anymore days

They’re all going to be just like yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Yesterday

Hey ya, hey ya

Oh yesterday

Oh god don’t let It be just like yesterday…..