Soul Cry
“Soul Cry”
Yeezy you da best
Not ice cold soulless
You gotta big heart
Wanna be next U.S. Pres'
You now swingin' with da rest
with your delusional pal
That Humpty Dumpty
gonna have a big fall
One messy cracked
bad Orange egg
That Joker card's a Trump
You surfing on the swell?
You still under that man's thumb?
Still jiggy with him, doin' the bump?
Walking the fine line on his wall,
big bears hug?
That's not dope boy
"That sounds like a choice"
“People do anything
To be included in Everything”
You have everything
You can change anything
Darkness in the boy
done turned good
you're now a man
Open the Cage
You now have a voice
walking with a different gang
but it's kinda the same thang
in your shiny new hood
"If I had everything,
I could change anything"
Release those babies
from the Can
Stop their crying
Stop their pain
They just lost
"EVERYTHING"
Singing an Opera
with Men in uniforms
and batons
banging away
Kanye you da best
Not ice cold soulless
“You’ll never concur with anyone else
You don’t think the same as anyone else”
You can change Everything
You have Everything
Scry
See the signs
Take the key
Unlock those kids
They’re just babies
Give them wings to fly
Back to warm milk
and the safe bosoms
of their families
Safe by Mumma’s and Pappa’s side
"You don’t think the same as anyone else"
"See you’ll never concur with anyone else"
That disgrace, you say he’s your friend?
That's a lie man
That monster is the Living End
Scry
It's a crying game
Soul Cry
(Lovejoy-Burton/June 2018)
Matthew 19:14
1. Detained Children
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/harrowing-audio-reveals-desperate-sobbing-of-children-separated-from-their-parents-at-us-immigration-a3866251.html
2. ACLU Report: 23/5/18
"Detained Immigrant Children Subjected To Widespread Abuse By Officials"
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613907893/
3. Human Rights Watch, 28/2/18
"In the Freezer:
Abusive Conditions for Women and Children in US Immigration Holding Cells"
https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/28/freezer/abusive-conditions-women-and-children-us-immigration-holding-cells
4a. Forced Administration Drugs, Children/Lawsuit
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-medication/u-s-centers-force-migrant-children-to-take-drugs-lawsuit-idUSKBN1JH076
4b.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-22/allegations-immigrant-children-in-texas-centre-forcibly-drugged/9898298
5. "Real Clear Politics" article
Kanye West: When I Said Slavery Was "A Choice," I Meant "We Can Make Our Own Reality"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/05/02/
kanye_west_on_trump_sometimes_you_need_some_crazy__
to_change_something.html
6. U.S. quits 'biased' UN Human Rights Council / BBC News (Canada, U.S.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/44537372
7. "APESH**T", The Carters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA
Artwork/Patrick Gonzales.
Copyright © Leanne Lovejoy-Burton | Year Posted 2018
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