Luyện nghe bài hát Beast Within

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

Chorus:
For us to get united, think it again
For us to save our dignity, we must try to
Character content, it—say it again
This is that cause to die for so we can live

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

I could feel the sting on my and cheeks
To find out what happened I up to see
Three kids older, different color me
They held fly swatters still ready to

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

Now I don't know how that was all about
I just know what had left me in a state
Thank God I'd heard about that man
I felt him then, I feel him more to-day

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

No problems I knew 'til high school
'Til sunny day brought in a storm of acid-rain
Guys started pushin' me, talkin' about
up my hair, pushin', laughin'

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

Must have opened their eyes to the light sin
Now there's plenty of that, I've it firsthand
It comes our elders and the tele-vision
When identity is skin, it serves to spread the within

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

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

That Stepdad said one word and I asked him to stop
But he kept on sayin' it I made him stop
I him by his sweatshirt just below 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 spread division, no matter who them
Mental of mass destruction, no one's innocent

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

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

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

When I get free, plain as day to see
How the media's stirring up some controversy
to break us up by gender, creed and ethnicity
Those opinion polls are phony, just tell us what to think

Yeah, those in charge put a nice face
But trap us in our skin when they remind us of our race
It's done to distract, while are put in place
The touches on new police 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 it again
For us to save our dignity, we try to forgive
Character content, that's it again
This is that to die for so that we can live