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*** Ten Years ***
Ten years
Ten years ago
Ten years
How many more to go
Ten years
Ten years ago
Ten years
Lifetime ago
Let me tell you 'bout a young man
With a bright future
Just an ordinary black man
Cut down so brutal
Waiting at a bus stop
On a chilly night
Apocalypse come for him
With a sharp sharp knife
(Chorus)
Police drag their big feet
Across the bloody scene
Just another black man
Lying dead in the street
Remember Mississippi
When they kill Emmet Till
Five white boys strut their stuff
In the media thrill
(Chorus)
Another mother crying
Father feels the blow
As five little Hitlers
Star in a racist show
If people ask no questions
The lies stay the same
Black blood's dispensible
Another sidewalk stain
(Chorus)
A blood stain may linger
Linger in yur mind
Why point the finger
If justice is blind
Are the killers so cold
Their blood don't flow
If you're no longer human
You can sink that low
(Chorus)
A decade come full circle
Four million pound is spent
So why the puzzle
A murder unavenged
He built no buildings
Like an architect
But he laid foundations
For a new respect
(Chorus)
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