I got my pride,  Won't put my hands up  Won't run and hide,  Can't you see I've had enough?  No one can tell me  That what I'm doing is wrong  I've got a vision  That may come true before it's too long    I look around me lately  These days you can never tell  Whose your friend or foe  Before it's too Late  Stay silent, act alone  The future is ours  We must be patient  Survival is our history  And our fate    [CHORUS:]  A Vision for the Future  Based on the lessons from the past  A Vision for the Future  Based on the lessons from the past    I look ahead  Don't quite know what I see  But I know just what I want  I've got hard work ahead of me  And I look behind me  I'm not ashamed of where I've been  But I've got to live  Ain't gonna make the same mistakes again    'Til someone comes along  Who makes some sense to me  I'll follow nothing more  Than what my own two eyes can see  We're tired of being used  I won't play nobody's fool  My kind's a breed apart  Not bodyguards or front line tools