Luyện nghe bài hát Beast Within

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

Chorus:
For us to get united, think it again
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 little starts about grade K
I was at the fair, I remember the day
I was on Slurpee I had in my face
smack, it splattered all over the place

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

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

Now I know how that was all about race
I just know happened had left me in a state
Thank God I'd heard that man M-L-K
I him back then, I feel him more to-day

As we grew up, we were pretty much
Yet I was taught by my that there was a difference
The difference they were about was based on skin
Felt the presence of the devil when they talk-in'

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

Callin' me a of boy, guys I thought were friends
All done cause, my faith was shaken
But lookin' back, I can see what
An elder of my friends must have talkin'

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

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

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

That Stepdad said that one word and I him to stop
But he kept on sayin' it 'til I him stop
I grabbed him by his sweatshirt just his chin
him from 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 of mass destruction, no one's innocent

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

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

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

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

Yeah, in charge put forth a nice face
But they trap us in our skin they remind us of our race
It's done to distract, while things are put in
The finishing touches on new state

If I offended any good-willed people, I apologize right now. That was not my intent. But we are 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 spirit—say it
For us to save our dignity, we must try to
Character content, that's it—say it
This is that cause to die for so we can live