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Intro 1

Gsus2

He was

Verse 1
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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
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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
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I mean Barack Obama won
And you can choose where to eat
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But you don't see too many white kids
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Lying bleeding on the street

Interlude 1

Gsus2

Verse 2
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In some town in Missouri
But it could be anywhere
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It could be       right here
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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
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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
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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
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What it

Verse 3

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means?

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Interlude 2

Gsus2

Verse 4
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Then I guess there was protesting
And some looting in some stores
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And someone  was reminded that
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They ain't called colored folks    no more
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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
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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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Verse 5
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What it       means?
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What it       means?

Interlude 3

Gsus2

Asus4

Gsus2

Astrophysics

Verse 6
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What it

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Outro 1
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