• New song: BLM

    From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 7 17:51:47 2021
    Warnings: politics, race, recent events

    Title: BLM
    ttto: December 1963 (What a Night) by Judy Parker & Bob Gaudio

    Oh, to be Black
    In America, land of the free
    Free for everybody else but me
    I just wait to be attacked

    Oh, to be Black
    And stopped by cops who should've never been
    Stopped because they do not like my skin
    You know they'll give me no slack

    And I had an awful feeling
    When they came to my door
    I knew they wouldn't be trying to build rapport

    And though I chilled
    Tasing me until I was confound
    I was handcuffed; I was on the ground
    I surrendered; I was killed

    The country had this amazing pang of conscience
    You know that never lasts
    And the cops act just the same since

    And still I'm dead

    Do you have an awful feeling
    Things will stay as they are?
    Do you think they realize now things have gone too far?

    Take back the night!
    No one should live their whole life in fright
    Take these wrongs and somehow make things right
    Just as safe as if they're White

    You mustn't stop till racist cops and unfair laws
    Are just things of the past
    Everyone please join in the cause

    So start tonight
    To make things right

    Get freedom back
    For all who're black

    Please let the dead
    Spark change instead

    So start tonight
    And make things right


    My lyrics copyright 2021 by Arthur Tansky. License granted for
    non-commercial, non-political archiving and performance as long as:
    1. copyright notice is maintained, and
    2. no money changes hands.

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