CHALLENGER'S RAP

• a solemn elegy for all the earth we've lost
• and all the people we're still losing
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• you know we grieve different, the sadness of it all
• lost in the pains of anger and ceaseless strife
• my heart bleeds like the long course of the nile
• feels an endless passage straight out the scriptures of hell
• the cracks in my face etched into concrete like the liberty bell
• listening for a voice on the wind, on this long walk to freedom
• guiding words of mandela echo in my heart
• it's time for action, first response when destiny calls
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• so all you bitches can bury my heart at wounded knee
• while i gaze upon the beautiful faces of an entire race that i'll never know
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• my heart bleeds like the mouth of the amazon
• with a boundless yearning for lost
• time, never to be forgotten
• coming to grips with all these pistols, politics
• busting caps and busting lips, laying bodies six feet below
• ain't no one gonna take me down, chain gang labor
• hands in the dirt, i'm digging this ditch
• ten toes on the ground
• i rise up like seeds which will one day become old growth trees
• let our burning hearts guide us thru the darkness
• listen to the drip
• as the blood of our enemies
• pools at our feet
• wading knee deep
• never rest, never sleep
• put terror in hearts
• so they never dream, so they never sleep
• you know my bars taste like dirt, it's because they're that rich