LmbrJck_t - Riser : an Ode to Black (feat. Vicky Flint) Lyrics

(I have a dream
That my four little children will one day
Live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color
Of their skin but by the content of their character
I have a dream, today...)

Little black boy, playing in the park
Gets killed by the cops
Beautiful Nubian teacher on her way to work
Gets killed by the cops
Energetic Cornrowed youth, just loitering around the way
Get Killed by the cops
Some Uncle Tom'n nigga, goin' on and on, about black on black crime
Gets killed by the cops, and that's off top

See, what are we to do, and what are we to say?
Is there really a God, or is that just a silly game?
See, why are people dying every single day? (from the LAW!)
(We've already said goodbye, before we say hello)
(We've already said goodbye, before we say hello, yeah)

From greed to green, winter to spring
Equal opportunity medicine that's free
This is what drives me, seeing those protests in the streets
Globalization and democracy
Food stamp for them dudes in the streets
Energy that's clean, free culture remaining free
Air for our kids to breathe, water clean, free of disease
And I'll tell you what
I just wanna let you know that we just want to live
Want humankind to grow in light

But when reality turns into a lie?
So many questions, what do we do with this light?
But when reality turns into a lie?
So many questions, what do we do with this light?
We rise!
(We've already said goodbye, before we say hello)
(We've already said goodbye, before we say hello, yeah)
We rise!

We're a beautiful, courageous, and outstanding nation
We're an equal-minded, sensually enticing, one-of-a kind people
We're descended from foundations of the nations, BLACK MAN
We're a beautiful, courageous, and outstanding nation
We're an equal-minded, sensually enticing, one-of-a kind people
We're descended from foundations of the nations, BLACK MAN
We're a beautiful, courageous, and outstanding nation
We're an equal-minded, sensually enticing, one-of-a kind people
We're descended from foundations of the nations, BLACK MAN
We're a beautiful, courageous, and outstanding nation
We're an equal-minded, sensually enticing, one-of-a kind people
We're descended from foundations of the nations, BLACK MAN
(Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California
But not only that
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi
From every mountainside, let freedom ring
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring
When we let it ring from every village and every hamlet from every state and every city
We will be able to speed up that day
When all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics
Will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual
'Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!')