Intro
(You good, History.com?)
Yeah, countries been choosing their sides
I'm tracing the timeline, I'm loading the text
I'm writing down facts, and I'm checking 'em next
The League had no power, the global community stressed
The Axis is grouping, the pressure is high
The whole world is changing right under the sky
Great Britain is standing all up on its own
But Churchill is stepping right up to the throne
Verse 1
I’m all in the books, this as deep as it get
Hitler broke the peace, yeah he marching his troops
Poland got caught in a terrible loop
Nineteen-thirty-nine, now the nations divide
Allies in the trenches, nowhere left to hide
Bletchley Park breaking the codes in the dark
Air raids over London are leaving a mark
What good is the peace if the treaty is broke?
What good is a system if it's all a joke?
The Great Depression had 'em feeling the pain
Unresolved tensions are driving insane
FDR watching from over the sea
Lend-Lease Act sending out aid to the free
Then December seventh, forty-one on the clock
Pearl Harbor hit and it gave 'em a shock
They act like two sides cannot coexist
But the Axis powers are making a list
Germany, Japan, and Italy crew
U-boats in Atlantic, the cold water blue
Everything grows, it's destined to change
History.com putting facts in the range
To the soldiers who fought, we are thanking you now
Paving the ground, showing us how
I studied the books, got the timeline down
Class is in session, I'm wearing the crown
Chorus
I just poured truth in my cup
I've been wanting history that's real
Promise I am never letting up
Fred Korematsu showed us how to feel
Foot is on the gas, never stuck
Atomic weapons hitting with the steel
If it ain't about peace, it's corrupt
Manhattan Project making up a deal
Verse 2
I'm dead in the middle of two world wars
The first one was heavy, the second one more
Just left the lab with the facts on my mind
Ration books given to all of mankind
Sixty to eighty million lives in the gloom
Civilians taking the brunt of the doom
Six million Jews in the camps hidden deep
The Final Solution made the whole world weep
Too many soldiers in cycle of strife
Giving up everything, losing their life
Stalingrad holding the Eastern Front line
Operation Barbarossa failing over time
Allied forces gathered for Normandy shore
D-Day landings in forty-four
Battle of the Bulge in the winter and snow
Pushing to Berlin, watch the empire go
Hitler in the bunker, April forty-five
V-E Day in May, glad to be alive
Pacific theater still hot with the heat
Island hopping strategies make it complete
Midway turning it around for the fleet
Hiroshima, Nagasaki face the blast
United Nations rising up at last
Cold War starting as the pages unfold
Geopolitical rivalries turning it cold
Chorus
I just poured truth in my cup
I've been wanting history that's real
Promise I am never letting up
Fred Korematsu showed us how to feel
Foot is on the gas, never stuck
Atomic weapons hitting with the steel
If it ain't about peace, it's corrupt
Khi
