It was hard to hear the gunshots Running back and forth And then he He I'm looking for a happy I said, "We never had beginnings" I'm on my knees, I'm praying, I'm on my But, now I'm an target for them to attack me Liberals and intellectuals my anger But when the cameras ain't here, ain't no where near Oh, so eloquent, watch them When the smoke clears, the re-build real estate You sitting in your academic Tweeting around the hour while the poor fights the Oh it, oh stop it, you and your non-profit With a heart full of promise based on bad Put your in the air, pull out a lighter, then burn it We giveaway votes, make them Democrats earn it Politicians don't cuz' they don't see a need They won't care till we on the same concrete We burning down the where 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 the philosophers argue while Rome burns down Bang, bang, Bang, bang, Reload the gun, gon' do the same thing Bang, bang, Bang, bang, the gun, they gon do the same thing Is it a ballot or a Let me know Should I fight or I pray? Who's my foe? Are they with a pistol or a vote? Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Maybe, Why stop I haven't caught the holy yet Sing a little louder, we can drown out the We build an antebellum, they too to listen I hear disturbing things from so-called "Christians" Quick to justify your death Because of a record or how a man dressed Thugs I guess, only perfect get grace If that was the Lord's way, be no one in the faith True flaw, America kills and behind the law They purchase this with violence, but never count the cost Put a dollar to your ear, you can hear the of a slave America the was built off the labor that they gave Jefferson and were great peace pursuers But, John Brown was a terrorist and an evil Oh yes, God bless the Revolution But, God ain't for all the riots and the Bang, bang, Bang, bang, Reload the gun, they gon' do the same Bang, bang, Bang, bang, Reload the gun, gon do the same thing Is it a ballot or a Let me know Should I fight or should I pray? my foe? Are they killing with a pistol or a Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Or, maybe, it is Maybe, another man dies And mom cries The ask why? yo' head to the sky Another man and another man cries Lord, em' cry He said, "Stop, pull it" Wait a minute, a ballot or a What's your standard? Where you your views? What gives you the right to the the way that you do? Is it school? Is it Is it man's wisdom? Is it Why listen when you can make your own It's funny how some people see the Some see him as a Some see him with a The Lord who sin showed 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 over in the temple He took a wrongful death, yet he remained But, he said he coming back, and he is bringing Many isolate him just to make him fit their cause Never too in a greater context at all So, are there two christs totally Or, maybe there's one Christ, and pretty complicated Huh? Pretty Or, maybe it is Maybe, it is Maybe, Yo, it's Hey man, Friday morning I've 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 you think I'm trying to sense of some things And, I wanna make sure I have a better of what's going on So, let's Call me back and we'll it happen in the schedule Take man Bye