(Bernadette)
The killers
Youâve invaded my nights
Singing your haunting lullaby
Drowning other voices
Choking
Suffocating
Numbing
Sending me to sleep
Youâve awakened me many mornings
Like an unexpected alarm
Shattering my dreams
Confusing
Terrorizing
Traumatizing
Iâve talked to you in tears and anger
Spat on you in rage
Whispered to you in sorrow
Tied you in chains
Thrown you in jail
Iâve pulled you out
Asked you many questions
Knowing there would be no answers...
(Shad)
Iâll never understand how flesh being torn apart feels
Or how after all this suffering a heart heals
On the rich green fields where they killed old and young
Cold and numb, under the light of a golden sun
It still stuns, tell me what possesses man
To, in anger, raise his hand?
Iâll never understand...
(Bernadette)
I tied you in chains
Again and again, round and round
Until the chains, in my dizziness
bound me to you
you and I becoming one!
Bound by the chains of hate
I knew then the choices to make...
(Shad)
Iâll never understand how it felt
when my mom lost her dad
her sister and the only brother that she ever had
and Iâll never know whatâs more sad
the fact they couldâve been spared
or the fact that to this day nobody cares
for the innocent
victims of a full-fledged holocaust
because folks only holler if the cost
of dollars lost is high
so regardless of the number of lives
when poor blacks die
they always turn a blind eye
and Iâll never understand why...
(Bernadette)
I untied the chains
Letting go
Of those who converged on my dad
beating
pounding
leaving him dead
I untied the chains
Letting go
Of those who propelled the grenade
Scattering my brotherâs brains
I untied the chains
Letting go
Of those who knifed my sisterâs throat
Leaving her begging for a better death
I untied the chains
Painfully
Purposefully
Knowing the one who said to do it
Seventy times seven
Totally understands the depth of my pain...
(Shad)
Iâll never understand how people can go on and live
The miracle of finding the strength to forgive
To resurrect peace, to close up wounds so deep
they pierce souls beneath heart beats
To be a willful slave to a loving Godâs commands
The key to a freedom that Iâll never understand.
- :
- Boarding Pass
- Flying Colours
- The Old Prince
- TSOL
- Miscellaneous
- When This Is Over
- iTunes Session
- Now Hear This! December 2010
- La Cassette Mixee
- Beat the World (The Original Soundtrack)
- Melancholy and the Infinite Shadness
- Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)
- The Fool Pt 1 (Get it Got it Good)
- A Short Story About A War