This is my perspective on current events, and also a compilation of some people who have inspired me. Sampled are Nelson, Vaughn, Dante, and Dion from "No Label the Podcast", Angela Davis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Trevor Noah, and Queen Latifa.
I’m donating everything I earn from this song to A World Without Police, an organization whose mission is to Defund and eventually Abolish the police. In short, the strategy is to Disempower, Disarm, and Disband the police by reinvesting the money that funds police departments into social services and networks of community safety/conflict resolution that don't involve the law (aworldwithoutpolice.org). So if you want to help the cause and get a song out of it, look no further! Thank you for listening
lyrics
*Samples not transcribed*
Verse:
Lately I cannot fall asleep
Nights late and long as an American acknowledging
Count the sheep; they bah and bleet so loud
Some of ‘em woke up, recalled the Dream, and saw
All we all need is sovereignty
To breathe and a piece of the pie to eat
Feel like Don McLean to day: “This could be the day
I d-i- e, but my- ID will say
‘Unlikely,’ because white skin keeps me safe (like high- key)
From the highly violent and
Vehement hate deep ingrained in United States
Where you like to sing,“Let freedom ring"
“Freedom ain’t free,” they say
But how free can you be when the fee to pay
May be life, if you ain’t white
Prices that high, it’s high time
To rearrange the whole budget
Defund police today, motherfucker
What’s the discussion? Check the stats
There’s more feds than facts to back spendin
Half our taxes and collective cash on a
Force sworn to serve and protect the masses
Asterisk that last bit, I meant the masters
The bastards invented that shit
To recapture the runaway slaves
And maintain the status quo when they staged revolts
Bitch please, bigoted police are the bread and butter
Of this country. Think not? You best believe
It’s no mystery; history repeats
Just disguised under guises like this
Red blood shed by the great white boys in blue
How patriotic
Wave the flag and celebrate the violence
Either that, or just refrain from comments
It’s painful watching
So I wanna play my part in breakin wall bricks
One at time; they all stick together until they fall
Foundations crumbling
Time to televise; show this nation what it is
But all all of the above is is thoughtful statements
Conversation’s crucial
But that’s just- the basics.
I’ll echo what Jermaine said
I gotta do more, and I’ll start by sayin it
Hook:
Lately I been contemplating
Staying up way too late, and
Tryna understand this crazy world
I been asking questions daily
I don’t got the answers, baby
So I’m tryna educate me first
I been making observations
But that’s not enough to save us
No one understands this crazy world
All I know’s how Mama raised me
How to have a conversation
And that we can change the way we work
Bridge:
U-N-I-T-Y
You and I, we don't see eye to eye
But you and I see why
We need U-N-I-T-Y
credits
released July 4, 2020
-Lyrics by Robscure
-Beat by eeryskies, Robscure & Zak Kline
-Engineered by Zak Kline & Robscure
-Cover photo by Krista Dy
Mixing space funk, jazz and warped soul, “Everything’s Fine” is a fluid masterpiece that’s very much of the moment. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 29, 2018
