| (Hmm
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| I just gotta get some things off my chest
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| Tough times, I hope y’all holdin' up
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| We’ll be aight 'cause we always is
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| But I’m feelin' like this)
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| How many mothers have to cry?
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| How many brothers gotta die?
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| How many more times?
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| How many more times?
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| How many more marches?
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| How many more signs?
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| How many more lives?
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| How many more times?
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| Take a look around, can you see it now?
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| Don’t be colorblind, 'cause when they’re killin' mine
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| They’ll try to justify it
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| Oh, each and every time
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| Playin' in a park, takin' your jog
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| Sittin' on the couch, in your own house
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| Never seem to matter what we do
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| You think we don’t matter, but we do
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| You got a problem, 'cause the city on fire
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| But you quiet when niggas die
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| Let the soul up out that body that we buried
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| You with God now you no longer have to worry
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| It’s so hard to sing these words out loud
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| All these beautiful, precious black lives
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| Lost in the name of senseless white pride
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| Tears fallin' from my eyes
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| How many mothers have to cry?
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| How many brothers gotta die?
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| How many more times?
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| How many more times?
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| How many more marches?
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| How many more signs?
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| How many more lives?
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| How many more times?
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| Tell me how can you be quiet?
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| You know the language of the unheard, is a riot
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| All we ever see from you is violence (True)
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| You know you ain’t no better if you silent
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| You talking 'bout the city on fire (Oh, oh)
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| Where your rage when my people die?
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| We ain’t slaves, let my people fly (Oh, yeah)
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| Now it’s time, watch my people rise
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| How many mothers have to cry? |
| (Ooh, how?)
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| How many brothers gotta die? |
| (Ooh, how?)
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| How many more times? |
| (Ooh, how?)
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| How many more times? |
| (How many times?)
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| How many more marches? |
| (Ooh, how?)
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| How many more signs? |
| (Ooh, how?)
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| How many more lives? |
| (Ooh, how?)
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| How many more times? |
| (How many times?)
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| How many mothers have to cry? |
| (Tell me? Ooh, how?)
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| How many brothers gotta die? |
| (Tell me? Ooh, how?)
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| How many more times? |
| (Oh no, ooh, how?)
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| How many more times? |
| (How many times?)
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| How many more marches? |
| (All across the world, ooh, how?)
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| How many more signs? |
| (Woah, oh, oh, ooh, how?)
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| How many more lives? |
| (Shame I gotta ask, ooh, how?)
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| How many more times? |
| (How many times?)
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| I’ll leave you with that (Yes, yeah) |