It was to hear over the gunshots Running back and forth And he said He I'm for a happy ending I said, "We never had beginnings" I'm on my knees, I'm praying, I'm on my But, now I'm an easy for them to attack me Liberals and intellectuals my anger But when the ain't here, they ain't no where near Oh, so eloquent, watch pontificate the smoke clears, the blogs re-build real estate You sitting in your academic Tweeting around the hour while the poor the power Oh stop it, oh stop it, you and non-profit With a heart full of promise based on bad Put your ballot in the air, out a lighter, then burn it We just giveaway votes, make them Democrats it Politicians don't cuz' they don't see a need They won't care till we bleed on the same We burning down the neighborhoods we live at If we don't own it, well do something to change that It didn't change Watts, it ain't much now Watch the philosophers while Rome burns down Bang, bang, Bang, bang, Reload the gun, they gon' do the thing Bang, bang, Bang, bang, the gun, they gon do the same thing Is it a or a bullet? Let me know Should I fight or should I Who's my foe? Are killing with a pistol or a vote? Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Maybe, Why stop I caught the holy ghost yet Sing a little louder, we can out the protests We build an antebellum, they too to listen I hear disturbing things come so-called "Christians" Quick to justify your man's Because of a criminal or how a man dressed Thugs I guess, only perfect people get If that was the Lord's way, be no one in the faith True flaw, America kills and behind the law They purchase this land with violence, but count the cost Put a to your ear, you can hear the moaning of a slave America the was built off the labor that they gave Jefferson and Washington great peace pursuers But, John Brown was a terrorist and an doer Oh yes, God bless the Revolution But, God ain't for all the and the looting Bang, bang, Bang, bang, Reload the gun, they do the same thing Bang, bang, Bang, bang, Reload the gun, they gon do the thing Is it a ballot or a bullet? Let me Should I fight or should I Who's my foe? Are they killing with a or a vote? Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Maybe, Before man dies And another mom The ask why? Keep yo' to the sky man dies and another man cries Lord, em' cry He said, "Stop, pull it" a minute, a ballot or a bullet? What's your standard? Where you your views? What gives you the to the think the way that you do? Is it Is it news? Is it man's Is it religion? Why listen when you can your own decisions? It's how some people see the Lord Some see him as a Some see him with a The Lord who hated sin grace to the thief Saved the lonely prostitute from being in the street He was holy, but he hung the sinful Drove out the wicked by flipping tables in the temple He took a wrongful death, yet he silent But, he said he coming back, and he is bringing Many isolate him just to make him fit their cause Never too involved in a greater at all So, are there two totally unrelated Or, maybe there's one Christ, and pretty complicated Huh? Pretty Or, it is both Maybe, it is Maybe, Yo, it's Hey man, Friday morning been meaning to call you I'd love to get your take on some of things been thinking more and more about the issues And I think it would be good to hear what you I'm trying to make sense of things And, I make sure I have a better picture of what's going on So, meet Call me back and make it happen in the schedule care man Bye