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you
00:04
i bag
00:07
blood contents
00:11
emptiness sidewalk
00:15
sky you take my bag
00:19
and pour its contents on the sidewalk
00:22
i nurture your blood and fill your
00:25
emptiness
00:27
from the sky
00:30
hoodie skin
00:34
danger safety
00:37
showmanship reality
00:41
if i wear my hoodie it is not
00:44
in danger it is not in solidarity
00:49
it is showmanship
00:53
when i undress your skin it is from
00:56
safety
00:57
it is from alienation it is not
01:01
reality interviewer
01:05
god buddy holly
01:09
little richard audiences
01:13
emptiness the interviewer
01:16
asked if i studied how buddy holly
01:18
disarmed
01:19
all black audiences a god
01:23
answered when i neglected why little
01:26
richard
01:27
provoked one white emptiness
01:32
primary final
01:35
school repeat
01:39
warren g kenny g
01:44
my primary album in middle school
01:48
was warren g’s regulators
01:51
your final silence on infinite repeat
01:56
is kenny g’s lawlessness
02:01
had lose
02:04
sun moon
02:08
[Music]
02:10
anything if i had a son
02:14
he’d look like trayvon
02:18
when you lose the moon it blinds
02:21
unlike anything
02:25
children ancestors
02:28
responsible forgiven
02:32
blood myth
02:36
our children will be responsible for the
02:39
debts we have not paid in blood
02:43
your ancestors won’t be forgiven
02:46
despite any surplus you have assumed
02:50
from myths
02:54
white black
02:57
stage reality
03:01
gun prayer
03:05
the white girl on stage said she prayed
03:09
trayvon reached for the gun
03:12
a black boy in reality listened
03:16
he knew trayvon left
03:20
despite a prayer
03:33
you
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