[00:00.00]Mourning In America - Brother Ali
[00:00.89]I don't usually use those big words
[00:02.64]Cause I don't usually deal with big people
[00:06.70]I find you can get a whole lot of small people
[00:08.27]And whip hell out of a whole lot of big people
[00:15.32]Murder murder murder kill kill kill
[00:17.52]Cannibals walk the earth and get ill blood spill
[00:20.39]Eyes sunk deep in their skull their bone chill
[00:23.07]Few for survival most for the thrill
[00:25.89]Terrorism is the war of the poor
[00:28.32]Hold up a mirror so the script get flipped
[00:31.05]Cause when it's in reverse it ain't wrong no more
[00:33.67]Warfare's the terrorism of the rich
[00:38.01]Who's the true guerilla
[00:39.14]When the bomb on your body killing innocent civilians
[00:41.63]But a life is a life and a killer is a killer
[00:44.25]You're at a desk chillin' push a button kill a million
[00:48.06]See the anguish of the parents
[00:49.81]When they're carrying the body of the baby that they cherish
[00:53.25]When innocent people perish
[00:55.00]It's a very thin line between a soldier and a terrorist
[00:58.30]Murder murder kill kill kill
[01:00.30]Death and destruction a cap get pealed
[01:03.36]Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
[01:05.68]Shots still ring out the blood still spill
[01:08.74]Murder murder kill kill kill
[01:10.99]Death and destruction a cap get pealed
[01:13.92]Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
[01:16.35]Shots still ring out the blood still spill
[01:19.72]Overseas we can mutilate and mangle
[01:21.59]Let me give you an example what our troops are coming back to
[01:24.53]Cold cities where the youth are getting strangled
[01:26.91]The community in peril and our future looking narrow
[01:30.55]Your school already failed you
[01:32.23]The boys in blue will nail you they salute you with a barrel
[01:35.17]The streets are a certified dead zone
[01:37.54]Decorated with chalk lines and headstones
[01:40.72]All the way live and every night the bullets flying
[01:43.03]Even if you ain't dying you a traumatized survivor
[01:45.71]When you grow up in a climate of overriding violence
[01:48.08]You will never get beyond it it's always alive inside you
[01:52.07]And death just surrounds you
[01:53.76]Fallen classmates' ghosts haunt you
[01:55.59]Crime just calls you cause you look at what you walk through
[01:58.90]Ain't certain if you'll make it ain't sure you even want to
[02:02.89]Murder murder kill kill kill
[02:04.32]Death and destruction a cap get pealed
[02:07.26]Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
[02:09.63]Shots still ring out the blood still spill
[02:12.75]Murder murder kill kill kill
[02:15.00]Death and destruction a cap get pealed
[02:17.93]Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
[02:20.36]Shots still ring out the blood still spill
[02:23.35]Tears and sorrow block the sunlight
[02:28.54]Head low heart broke eyes closed tongue-tied
[02:33.71]Waters raise the tide is climbing
[02:36.34]Speeding time the sky is crying
[02:38.95]Shots are fired bombs and sirens
[02:41.52]War and riots mourning in America
[02:50.87]Now that society forgot you
[02:52.24]And they locked you in an obstacle course where nothing's possible
[02:55.93]If you slip up and they caught you
[02:57.67]They got boxes where they lock you make a million dollars off you
[03:01.04]They rule you too rude to school
[03:02.85]They screw you in a booth shoot electricity through you
[03:06.55]Or inject death into you
[03:08.17]On a television set and let it ooze through you
[03:11.16]Every time a leader tries to stand up for our freedom
[03:13.85]Someone claps them with the heater their brain and back leaking
[03:16.22]A shame their family grieving the only way to see them
[03:19.03]Is a displaced dream displayed in a museum
[03:22.52]They say they built our nation for a reason
[03:24.27]Then they stained it with the bleeding of the slaves that never seen it
[03:27.52]I ain't hating I still want to believe it
[03:29.70]And I'm not trying to leave it I just call it how I see it
[03:33.19]Murder murder kill kill kill
[03:35.07]Death and destruction a cap get pealed
[03:37.94]Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
[03:40.18]Shots still ring out the blood still spill
[03:43.43]Murder murder kill kill kill
[03:45.67]Death and destruction a cap get pealed
[03:48.61]Harm or heal destroy and rebuild
[03:51.04]Shots still ring out the blood still spill
[03:55.78]They haven't got anything to lose
[03:57.34]And they've got everything to gain
[04:00.35]And they'll let you know in a minute
[04:02.29]It takes two to tango When I go you go