Brother Ali - Mourning in America lyrics

I don’t usually use those big words
Cause, I don’t usually deal with big people
I find you can get a
Whole lot of small people
And whip hell out of a
Whole lot of big people

Murder murder murder kill kill kill
Cannibals walk the earth and
Get ill blood spill eyes sunk deep in their
Skull their bone chill
Few for survival most for the thrill
Terrorism is the war of the poor
Hold up a mirror so the script get flipped
Cause when it’s in reverse it
Ain’t wrong no more
Warfare’s the terrorism of the rich
Who’s the true guerilla
When the bomb on your
Body killing innocent civilians
But a life is a life and a killer is a killer
You’re at a desk chillin’ push
A button kill a million
See the anguish of the parents
When they’re carrying the body of
The baby that they cherish
When innocent people perish
It’s a very thin line between
A soldier and a terrorist

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out and blood still spill

Overseas we can mutilate and mangle
Let me give you an example what
Our troops are coming back to
Cold cities where the youth
Are getting strangled
The community in peril and
Our future looking narrow
Your school already failed you
The boys in blue will nail you
They salute you with a barrel
The streets are a certified dead zone
Decorated with chalk lines and headstones
All the way live and every
Night the bullets flying
Even if you ain’t dying
You a traumatized survivor
When you grow up in a
Climate of overriding violence
You will never get beyond it
It’ll always alive inside you
And death just surrounds you
Fallen classmates’ ghosts haunt you
Crime just calls you cause you look
At what you walk through
Ain’t certain if you’ll make it ain’t
Sure you even want to

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out and blood still spill

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out and blood still spill

Tears and sorrow block the sunlight
Head low heart broke eyes closed tongue-tied
Waters raise the tide is climbing
Speeding time the sky is crying
Shots are fired bombs and sirens
War and riots mourning in America

Now that society forgot you
And they locked you in an
Obstacle course where nothing’s possible
If you slip up and they caught you
They got boxes where they lock you
Make a million dollars off you
They rule you too rude to school
They screw you in a booth
Shoot electricity through you
Or inject death into you
On a television set and let
It ooze through you
Every time a leader tries to
Stand up for our freedom
Someone claps them with the heater
Their brain and back leaking
A shame their family grieving the
Only way to see them
Is a displaced dream displayed in a museum
They say they built our nation for a reason
Then they stained it with the bleeding of
The slaves that never seen it
I ain’t hating I still want to believe it
And I’m not trying to leave it I
Just call it how I see it

Murder murder kill kill kill
Death and destruction a cap get pealed
Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
Shots still ring out and blood still spill

They haven’t got anything to lose
And they’ve got everything to gain
And they’ll let you know in a minute
It takes two to tango when I go, you go