When everything we thought Meets everything we know And everything up top Meets everything below When every plainclothes cop Meets every angry soul And all getaways are stopped And all debt is paid in full Then everything we're never saying And never said will yet remain Hidden shame and bitter pain Will fill the air and weathervane 'Til by and by the sky will cry With bitter pain so let it rain Let it stain whichever angels Seek to be forever changed Message reads rest in piece Sleep in solace F police except celena hollis Say her name And pay respects to her daughter Black woman cop But none of that was why he shot her He was scared I don't wanna die I was there too When you're buried alive nobody can hear you But spirits can There's more souls in the cosmos More peace plans than oslos gacacas quilombos Dig a path tunnel out I sail boats and drop hidden tracks For the underground railroad There's blood in the river But moses parted waters Martin at the mountain top Followed higher orders that required slaughter If it it please the court or please the lord What's the procedure for the ouija board Get me vincent harding They said he's in the garden Singing with the holy ghost Squeezing our hands tight Til all of us are fully woke All is said and done Crisis up ahead Lift this up instead Voices of the dead Voices of the dead Rise above the threat Lift this up instead Voices of the dead Voices of the dead I put my hands up Not a seeking an escape I put my hands up to better seize the day Outstretched to carpe diem Carpal tunnels To mausoleums Trying to write a way to the voices Of my heroes Tearful I was stronger when your hands were on my shoulders Taught me To be a warrior before a soldier You got me And that's why I'll push this boulder forward Many hands light work That's why all of us are chosen So stop drop and roll out Stop frisked and hostile When the police game is ving rhames My contacts go nazghul When I pocket dial I ring wraiths Black ops in the talent pools Brothers dropping out like Under funded high school So less jails more doors Why excel in failure Losing ground every since four score And hold the door Stuck in a loop that predicts the final scene But the very worst of them won't get the best of me With archery able arrow sight Big voice from narrow mics Knowing I am clothed in the feathers from a sparrow's flight Fearing no fahrenheit Parallel or paralyzed Building up a world where I can hear your voice as clear as mine And where the rainbow stopped That's where they gained control And left him hanging on a cross And left her laying cold Now everything we lost And everything we stole Awakens ancient gods Who make our language whole So let us sing the lettering And let it ring no better thing Visions of coretta king Delivered life instead of dreams And by and by the sky will cry For all of us so let it rain Let it stain the feet of those Who seek to be forever changed! A voice mail from the summer of your senior year A secret note read aloud you didn't mean to hear A hundred windows in a ten story building side A hundred stories go dark when you kill the lights The shadow of another person living parallel A glimpse of somebody riding on a carousel A vision of a better life than I chose today The time you told me that love never goes away