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Common Hymnal & Phillip Joubert
Shots Fired
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Christian & Gospel
Shots Fired è stato pubblicato il 22 gennaio 2021 da Common Exchange come parte dell'album Praise And Protest
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AlbumPraise And Protest
Data di uscita22 gennaio 2021
EtichettaCommon Exchange
LinguaEnglish
Melodicità
Acousticità
Valence
Ballabilità
Energia
BPM89

PANORAMICA

TESTI

Crediti

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Common Hymnal
Common Hymnal
Performer
Phillip Joubert
Phillip Joubert
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Phillip Joubert
Phillip Joubert
Composer
Vincent Charlow
Vincent Charlow
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Kevin Dailey
Kevin Dailey
Producer

Testi

[Verse 1]
If you consuming Black art and streaming Black music
Benefit from Black inventions, but ignore Black weeping, then you a hypocrite
We been through this cycle so many times that I'm sick of it
Cellphone footage telling stories, we in the thick of it
[Verse 2]
They killed Ahmaud in broad daylight with a shotgun
Point blank range, and left him to die in the hot sun
Tell me how I'm supposed to respond other than screaming in pain
Shaking my fist at his grave
[Verse 3]
Do you understand that if that was me in a white shirt and them tan shorts
I'm not expecting y'all to ask about what I'm there for
Or why I was jogging, or who started it
Pardon my French, what hell does that have to do with the conversation
When a person is dead?
[Verse 4]
That's why my hand don't pledge, that's why my knees stay bent
With three months with no arrests, don't make no doggone sense
It's "Make America great," but who was it great for?
We're sleeping in the bed that my ancestors was raped on
[Verse 5]
Even to this day we endangered
I walk around my country, but treated like I'm a stranger
No record, still clutching on your purse when I walk in the elevator
You love my entertainment, but can't stomach my anger
Shots Fired
[Verse 6]
This is sickening, we hit the streets picketing
The cameras make it viral, politicians get their snippets in
The news calms down with it, and we all move on
Until we see the same scenario again, and then we all get on the merry-go-round
[Verse 7]
That's our reality, hard to trust the courts
With six months for Brock Turner and life for Cyntoia Brown Long
Bullets for Amadou, spine fractures in Freddie Gray
Sandra Bland's mugshot is haunting people every day
[Verse 8]
Can you respect our pain? Can you believe our facts?
You fitting to raise your fists, or you gonna turn your backs?
Who defends the undefendable?
How can you tell me the law's dependable when my life is expendable?
[Verse 9]
Deafening silence from evangelical brothers
Unashamed of the cross but ashamed to talk about race?
Y'all make us look ridiculous, ineffective, insipid, irrelevant
And overall a mockery to the marketplace of thought
[Verse 10]
Yes, I'm coming hard, our witness is in jeopardy
And where's your heart when jogging could be the death of me?
Some of y'all afraid that speaking up would cause a riot
You need to be concerned with who left the faith from your silence
Shots Fired
Shots Fired
[Verse 11]
So the crazy thing is George Floyd was killed two weeks after I wrote that
A lot of y'all think this is over with
Slavery is past tense, this racism is past tense
But you're being lied to
God doesn't say look past it, God says deal with it
Jesus didn't look past sin, didn't stop talking about it, he dealt with it
You deal with it
Shots fired
Written by: Phillip Joubert, Vincent Charlow

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