[Part I: What's Goin' On]
[Intro: Marvin Gaye]
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some loving here today
[Verse 1: gamemast15r]
Chalk outlines, bodies fresh out on the streets
Corrupt cops, please don't shoot, I can't breathe
But not every officer wants to go on the prowl
And shoot every black man, woman or child
[Interlude]
[Verse 2: Almighty U-Sorcerer]
Sixteen shots, like Mos Def, running 16 Blocks
Police say I'm a monkey, leave me hanging at the treetop
Got me heated like a teapot, black man in a car, not speed racing
But you pull him over, man, the f** is in police training?
[Outro]
Please don't shoot, I can't breathe
Please don't shoot, I can't breathe
Please don't shoot, I can't breathe
Please don't shoot, I can't breathe
[Part II: Softly]
[Intro: Lauryn Hill]
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
k**ing me softly with his song
k**ing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
k**ing me softly with his song
[Verse: Almighty U-Sorcerer]
Human beings in a riot
Opinions of the civilians are seeming biased
They want me incarcerated for my decision
To say f** a politician, let's take a minute
But what's a riot to a senator?
Them n***as get riots on the regular
Splendid, country run by a menace
Take it to the senate? They pathetic
Cause what's the senate to the president?
A racist antifeminist, malevolent
He in charge now, just know I don't let my guard down
He can have the White House, my crib a trap guard house
And what's the president to a non-believer?
I don't believe in the words, I do not like the speakers
He could come to my neighborhood and fix it a bit
But still if he come around me I'mma slit his wrist, real sh**
[Outro: Malcolm X Speech]
We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence
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