Luyện nghe bài hát Beast Within

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish 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 cause to die for so that we can live

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not long after I was with a gal
One who I liked, who saw me as a pal
She said she was goin' with the guy who pushed me down
Then I used one word and it got around
What got around was it was said in response
To a bigoted attack when I had done nothin'
I forgave and said I'm to everybody and their Mom
But it didn't matter, hate kept on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, those in charge put forth a face
But they trap us in our skin when remind us of our race
It's done to distract, while are put in place
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 being played against each other. We need to forget about 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 must try to
Character content, that's it—say it
This is that to die for so that we can live