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The Maafa

Verse 1
When I was younger, the world,
shined ever so bright
Little did I know that’d change
One faithless night.
Every news station showed
Faces of those who were slain
And I was scared shitless
For I saw, we all looked the same.
My mother sat me down
She told me,, with tears in her eyes,
That there is no grey
in a world that’s all black and white.
You’ll make people laugh
And sometimes you’ll make them cry.
But they won’t be happy until
The day that you die.

Chorus
O say I can’t breathe
By the red and blue lights
So proudly we hail
At the ones that we smite
O’er the land of the free
And the home of depraved
With a rope on my neck
And a boot on my grave.

Verse 2
These days I am melanin rich
but mentally poor.
Cause i'm too scared to even sttep foot
outside of my door.
I could paint this whole town inside out
With a smile on my face.
But this drink in my hand
Might just be the last thing I embrace.
I was told I’d look better in red
By the boys in blue.
And these friends that I keep
Well you see, They don’t have a clue
That this system is embedded
With sin and they’re woven in
And I’m the one spinning this
Broke down cotton gin.

Chorus

Bridge
Lady Liberty,
I come to you, on bended knee
These Stars and Stripes aren’t fitting
As they seem
Our stars are shot right down
And we wear these stripes
like a throned Crown
And you cut our tongues
Right out so you
Can try to sleep so sound.

Verse 3
Well, I’m 400 years of straight
living In crippling fear
But listen up closely as I say
what you need to hear.
I won’t ask for forgiveness from God,
for I know that he’ll frown.
As I light this match and I’ll burn
All this shit to the ground
Cause this war paint and blood
It comes, oh, it comes all in one.
And no matter the cost,
I’ll still fight for what needs to be done.
So then one day, the caged bird is freed
to spread out its wings.
And fly so damn far away,
it won’t have to sing.

Chorus

Outro
So comrades and charlatans
Hidden in right plain sight
Let’s reclaim what’s ours
Just for once and take back the night.
We’re thieves and we’re looters
And sin, or so that we’re called.
But we are the future
And this world is for us all.

credits

from Life, Love & The Bomb, released June 17, 2022
Ian Robinson aka Black Guy Fawkes - Rhythm Guitar/Lead Vocals
Corey Mackereth - Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals
Zach Dodge - Bass/Backing Vocals
Derek Shank - Drums/Backing Vocals

Produced by Black Guy Fawkes & Derek Shank
Mixed and Mastered by Derek Shank

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