STRANGE FRUIT
• Written by ItsTheory
ItsTheory's Notes
I love Billie Holiday and "Strange Fruit", so I took on a version.
I grew up in a city that was semi-segregated,
where most people are poor and uneducated,
there's so many kids who truly never made it,
and Katrina left all of New Orleans devastated,
plus the city is mostly black so it's forever hated,
so many people in the ghetto got them levitated,
the justice system? Well the cops featherweight it,
liberal bigots had tried to make clever statements,
I'd rather listen to these ignorant right-wing people,
than these pseudo-intellectual hipsters, the evil,
is not necessarily locked within the population,
it's rooted in the money that still locks the nation,
stop debatin', we need to switch conversations,
talk about race and class instead of profit makin',
Strange Fruit since Billie Holiday had it quoted,
dangerous streets, we need the guns unloaded,
young innocent black men have to stop and freeze,
it reminds me of the crops from the Poplar Trees,
it reminds me of Marvin Gaye and Carson McRae,
breathin' slow, ghetto air makes it harder to say,
so many kids would later die, they'd never know it,
life is blowin' in the wind, words of a clever poet,
I've talked about this before, poison in the seeds,
that grow those damned trees, blood on the leaves
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ItsTheory
Member since January 5 2014