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a.d. carson - letter home lyrics

“[1]
even as i’m sitting down to write this, like it’s a letter home
feeling wrong in these bad lands, stand, and let alone
let a loan put me in debt—inject the payback
they say that i can defer—waiting for may, back
when i was winning, winter was colder, summer was warmer

mom and pop was honored. the block had its performers

on the corners, where we were warned and heeded the warnings
we thought that normal living was chilling to see the morning

now we see her mourning in black—how do we act?
under attack—no tactical unit—choose to react
as reactionary and scary as victims tend to respond

bomb first—storm on horizon—visually calm

i’m your m-th-rf-cking nightmare
and you won’t see my back to put another f-cking knife there
chuckle if you must, but muster up the guts to set your feet to stand
i’ll show you how a boy can be a man

manage to turn me to villain
then watch the cops pop me and drop me with little feeling

paint a sistine with six teens on ceilings
to doc-ment our descent to consenting to the k!lling

it’s like we’ve seen it all before
history repeats. it ain’t unique, and being poor
or being black ain’t never been the thing to be, but even more
at least they had the decency to speak and see it as a war

[2]
and over here they say it’s better—
but here and now is there and then
we ain’t escaping terror

nope

seems more like we’re inviting it
soldiers dying at war without even knowing they fighting it
liken it to the lights going off—if it starts flickering
you can call it progress. i’ll see it as an epiphany

i won’t be digging me a grave unless i’m making space for you lay inside it
i ain’t lying down. i’m riding
i ain’t try’n’a sound defiant
but i’m down to join a riot if they try it
no trial, no choices. no child
no day, should have to fear for his life
no way this is living
no place in this country
father forgive us
ought to remember how far we’ve come, and be proud but
we’re reminded every 28 hours.”

- a d carson lyrics

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