Luyện nghe bài hát Beast Within

We must learn to live as brothers or perish together as fools...MLK

Intro
For us to get united, think spirit—say it
For us to our dignity, we must try to forgive
Character content, that's it again
This is that cause to die for so that we can

This ditty starts about grade K
I was at the state fair, I the day
I was suckin' on I had in my face
Then smack, it all over the place

I could feel the sting on my nose and
To out what happened I looked up to see
Three older, different color than me
They held fly still ready to swing

I could tell that kids just wanted to fight
But I didn't want that, I just why...But
I could wonder, I was quickly told why
That the you did it to me just because I was light

Now I don't know how was all about race
I just know what happened had me in a state
Thank God I'd heard about man M-L-K
I felt him back then, I feel him more

As we grew up, we were pretty friends
Yet I was taught by my elders that was a difference
The difference they were about was based on skin
Felt the presence of the devil when they were

No problems I knew high school came
'Til that day brought in a storm of acid-rain
started pushin' me, talkin' about skin
Messin' up my hair, pushin',

Callin' me a kind of boy, guys I were friends
All done without cause, my faith was
But back, I can see what happened
An elder of my friends must have started

Must have opened their to the light man's sin
Now there's of that, I've lived it firsthand
It comes from our elders and the
When identity is skin, it serves to the beast within

Not after I was talkin' with a gal
One who I liked, who saw me as a pal
She said that she was goin' with the guy who me down
Then I that one word and it got around
What never got around was it was said in
To a bigoted attack I had done nothin' wrong
I and said I'm sorry to everybody and their Mom
But it matter, hate kept marching on

Despite that tit for tat, I tried to keep
Faced off with that for spreadin' the hate
day we were sittin', watchin' T-V
That wasn't much for diversity

Stepdad said that one word and I asked him to stop
But he on sayin' it 'til I made him stop
I grabbed him by his sweatshirt below his chin
Jerked him the chair "Don't ya (pop-pop) say it again!"

When Mom in cryin', I let go of him
Another explosion based on skin
Such words just division, no matter who uses them
Mental walls of destruction, no one's innocent

A alcoholic, my soul wasting away
Hip Hop loud in my ears all day
It's what kept me alive, but I was haunted by the
It me of Stepdad and the things he used to say

comes from fear and hate, Rap's from real pain
But the gun talk and the racial hits me about the same
And the of revolution, like that'll set things straight
Don't before you know it, there'll be no U-S-A

of that Stepdad echoed in my head
"You better get wise boy, they want you dead"
My bob-along thought, "my heroes really me dead?"
"You better learn to a gun for your own self-defense?"
Those thoughts resounded in me
I searched for some soul, some humanity
Yet I turned, just hate harassing
When the Bible we're one blood, one humanity

I get free, it's plain as day to see
How the media's always stirring up controversy
Just to us up by gender, creed and ethnicity
opinion polls are phony, they just tell us what to think

Yeah, those in charge put forth a nice
But they trap us in our skin when they us of our race
It's done to distract, while are put in place
The finishing on new police state

If I offended any good-willed people, I right now. That was not my intent. But we are being played against each other. We need to forget about race and follow the money. Now that'll get us somewhere...

Chorus (2x)
For us to get united, think it again
For us to save our dignity, we try to forgive
content, that's it—say it again
This is cause to die for so that we can live