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i’m grateful
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every morning i don’t wake up at hashtag
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i train on top of a tragedy
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a black and brown body outline a white
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red blood watering concrete
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because the shades of blue white lies
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i’ll find out how black lives matter
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my god there’s a war on colors ever
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since we’ve been coloring and coloring
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books
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they’ve been booking colors and books of
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a bishop whereas you should be worried
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because even those that survive those
0:27
years of their life
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and bays and gray boxes with no windows
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when they come out you can barely see
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the souls through their windows
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they look lost and i’ve lost myself in
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tears
0:39
found myself here crying because i
0:41
haven’t yet grieved over trayvon
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he looked so much like me when i saw him
0:47
i thought i died became a hashtag in the
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morning
0:51
a trending topic a tragedy a black and
0:54
brown body outlined in white
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red blood water and concrete because the
0:58
shades of blue
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white lies i’ll find out black lives
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matter my god
1:03
let’s raise suns like morning too many
1:05
suns in the morning
1:06
too many raisins in the sun too many
1:08
raisins in the sun let’s bring suns like
1:10
morning
1:10
too many suns we morning too many suns
1:12
we morning let’s raise suns light
1:14
morning
1:14
too many suns reminding my god
1:17
please don’t let me be a hashtag in the
1:24
morning
1:36
you
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