Blue Scholars - May Day lyrics

You never heard of this
City getting murderous
Occupation dangerous like
Philippine journalists
Crazy and deranged they describe him
In the same pages
That would call him terrorist
If not for the melanin deficiency
Gang problem bigger than
Just juvenile delinquency
Gangs is survival if environments is grimy
To begin with, speaking of which
Let’s be consistent
Today is called a tragedy
Yesterday a statistic i’m listening
Before I ever speak upon insisting
My name is young Prometheus and
This is my opinion: Watch "The Interrupters
" see ordinary civilians
Can't police themselves before they have
To call police for help
At least a little space to breathe
If you believe all violence
Is abhorrent to your being
Then why you oversee it?
If the killer wears a uniform
But if the killer’s me
It’s normal if the victim also looks like me

Shots fired in the south end, nobody cares
Shots fired in the north end
Everybody scared nothing they can do for us
That we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror
Instead of somebody else
Shots fired in the parking lot, nobody cares
Shots fired in the coffee shop
Everybody scared nothing they can do for us
That we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror, nobody else

Can’t lie
I know the music can be influential
But not as influential as
Desperation they saying
That you gotta act right if
You wanna have rights
But what if you were born
Into a wrong situation?
Moral relativity that passive
Aggressive city stuff
Becoming history quicker than you
Can blink at me
Rule 1: Protect yourself at all times
Rule 2: Always end but never start a fight
Came up in the era of
The hand-to hand scrapping
‘til the drugs happened
Now it’s bloodshed at transactions
I’m calling time out like Samuel L jackson
Playing DJ Love Daddy with
The African medallion
Tryin’a do the right thing
I don’t have the answers
But neither does a person
Who practices double standards
If every death’s a tragedy then
Join us when we’re chanting
And not just when we’re singing and dancing
It's too many -

Shots fired in the south end, nobody cares
Shots fired in the north end
Everybody scared nothing they can do for us
That we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror
Instead of somebody else
Shots fired in the parking lot, nobody cares
Shots fired in the coffee shop
Everybody scared nothing they can do for us
That we can’t do ourselves
Point the finger at the mirror, nobody else