running down the street
When they shot him in his tracks
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About the only thing agreed upon
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Is he ain't coming back
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There won't be any trial
So the air it won't be cleared
There's just two sides calling names
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Out of anger out of fear
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If you say it wasn't racial
When they shot him in his tracks
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Well I guess that means
that you ain't black
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It means that you ain't black
I mean Barack Obama won
And you can choose where to eat
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Lying bleeding on the street
In some town in Missouri
But it could be anywhere
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It could be right here
on Ruth Street
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In fact it's happened here
And it happened where
you're sitting
Wherever that might be
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And it happened last weekend
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And it will hap pen again next week
And when they turned him over
They were surprised there was no gun
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I mean he must have done something
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Or else why would he have run
And they'll spin it for the anchors
On the television screen
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So we can shrug and let it happen
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Without asking what it means
What it
Then I guess there was protesting
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They ain't called colored folks no more
I mean we try to be politically
Correct when we call names
But what's the point
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of post-racial
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When When old prejudice remains?
And that guy who killed that kid
Down in Florida standing ground
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Is free to beat up on his girlfriend
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And wave his brand new gun around
While some kid is dead and buried
And laying in the ground
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With a pocket full of skittles
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at our fingertips
And we're standing at the summit
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And some man with a joystick
Lands a rocket on a comet
We're living in an age
Where limitations are forgotten
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The outer edges move and dazzle us
But the core is something rotten
And we're standing on the precipice
Of prejudice and fear
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We trust science just as long
As it tells us what we want to hear
We want our truths all fair and balanced
As long as our notions lie within it
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There's no sunlight in our ass'
And our heads are stuck up in it
And our heroes may be rapists
Who watch us while we dream
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But don't look to me for answers
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Cuz I don't know what it means
What it
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