Luyện nghe bài hát Beast Within

We must learn to live together as 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, that's it—say it
This is that cause to die for so we can live

This 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 nose and
To find out what I looked up to see
Three older, different color than me
held fly swatters still ready to swing

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

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

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

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

Callin' me a kind of boy, guys I thought were
All done without cause, my was shaken
But lookin' back, I can see happened
An of my friends must have started talkin'

Must opened their eyes to the light man's sin
Now there's plenty of that, I've lived it
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 she was goin' with the guy who pushed me down
Then I that one word and it got around
never got around was it was said in response
To a bigoted attack when I had nothin' wrong
I forgave and said I'm sorry to everybody and Mom
But it matter, hate kept marching on

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

That said that one word and I asked him to stop
But he kept on 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!"

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

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

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

Words of that Stepdad 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 shoot a gun for own self-defense?"
Those cold thoughts in me
I searched for some soul, shared humanity
Yet everywhere I turned, just harassing
When the Bible says one blood, one humanity

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

Yeah, those in charge put forth a nice
But they trap us in our skin they remind us of our race
It's done to distract, things 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 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 our dignity, we must try to forgive
content, that's it—say it again
This is cause to die for so that we can live