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IfWeMust...
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IfWeMust... was released on October 1, 2021 by Lex Records as a part of the album Affable with Pointed Teeth
ReleasedOctober 1, 2021
LabelLex Records
LanguageEnglish
BPM160
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

"If We Must Die" is a poem that makes me a poet among colored Americans
If we must die—let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursed lot
If we must die—oh, let us nobly die
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe;
Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Written by: Colby Cohen Campbell, Idris Vicuna

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