Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song To a Black Boy, artist - Danger Mouse. Album song The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 21.12.2008
Record label: Blue Scholars, Light in the Attic
Song language: English
To a Black Boy |
Dear Marcus |
I know it’s been hard times |
Since they made you the victim of this so called crime |
Kinda snatched you out the game of life, in your prime |
They already took one |
We won’t let them take nine |
Since birth it seems like the deck was stacked against you to fail |
With your father not there |
Mom’s in and out of jail |
But you saw through it all and you chose to excel |
I can’t see why they chose to lock you in a cell |
Well I’m prayin' that you’re free by the time you get this |
Never known a convict with a 3.96 |
GPA, but in rural GA |
Black boys havin' sex with white girls, no way |
In any other state? |
It would have been okay |
For two high school teens to have sexual relations |
But at age 15, pssssssst, that’s molestation |
In the great state of Georgia and I really feel for ya |
She was only three months away from being sixteen |
You a few months away from achievin' your dreams |
All American |
Played on the football team |
Accepted into Vanderbilt, a scholar in the making |
And the jury saw fit to acquit you of the raping |
After only fifteen minutes of deliberation |
What’s the state of our nation when the laws ain’t in check? |
Got you servin' ten years for consentual sex?! |
I’m perplexed and ashamed at the games that playin' |
Tryin' to keep a young man from his life and education |
Not to mention family, you’ve been with since age ten |
Regardless of your race, they loved you and took you in |
So let your struggle make you great, don’t let it make you hate |
Know we won’t stop workin' till we free from them gates |
Much love and respect, hold your head God bless |
From the bottom of my heart |
M-U-R-S |