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The Right Thing, Do Lyrics by Timothy Welbeck

No City for Young Men

2017

Verse 1 (Timothy Welbeck)
It’s been twenty-five years, and we’re still asking/What would possess Mookie to throw that trashcan/But the question at hand, the one we should be asking/Is why would the NYPD kill another black man /We don’t defend everything seen of Radio Raheem /But can be incensed by what the law’s response means/He wasn’t perfect, but he was a person /They choked him for certain like that person was worthless/Twenty-five years later, life imitates art /And illustrates the evil that is in our hearts /The animus of the original sin of ours/Grows like cannabis planted within Colorado yards /It’s smoke is cancerous and brings other damages /But its smoke gets people high from plotting our harm /So all of these nice quotes and giving us the right to vote/Is like unto the blood of bulls and goats/We haven’t gotten that far
Verse 2 (Mahogany Jones)
It’s been twenty-five years and we’re still wondering/If Tina’s even capable of good mothering/But that’s hard to discover when vultures stay hovering under cover/As undercovers’ bullets stay puncturing/Lungs of the ones we love/Ones called brethren currently smothered in six feet of dirt/Wretched of the earth and I’m scared to give birth/To a bull’s eye/A black man in a suit and tie shouldn’t be dressed to be eulogized/I get that you sympathize, but doubt you identify/With being euthanized, with being stigmatized/Constantly terrorized/Officers awarded for using they guns to kill our sons/That’s no war on drugs/Being dressed in a black hoodie didn’t make him a thug/He was a smart boy (could have ran the White House)/He was a sweet boy (yeah he had a smart mouth)/Stay out them streets boy (boy get inside this house)/He was a good boy (the kind that's hard to live without)/All lives matter how dare you say this is not about race/It’s common place/For black bodies not to have space to feel safe/Despite all the rallies, the tallies still rise/They bodies don’t lie/My son’s not hear to catch the tears I cry/What answer do I give when they asked why poppa died/Or how justice failed when the killers were tried—denied
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Timothy Welbeck

Timothy Welbeck

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