Far Too Long (Radio Edit) ft. the black collective Lyrics

Top City, this is Shawn Knight from Magic 107.7 and the Magic Morning Show of Knight and Norwood

Me and some friends are celebrating the 70th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education

So without further ado

(Cyrus and Chester)

The stars are aligned for a time like this

The stars are aligned for a time like this

We've waited far too long for a song like this

(Cyrus)

Like this, like this, like this

(Cyrus and Chester)

We've waited far too long for a song like this

(Stik Figa)

Ay, there was a dream before King in the 1930s

The NAACP planted a couple seeds early

(JQ Guest)

Set the groundwork for Brown vs. Board of Education

May 17th, 1954, we changed the nation

(BIZZY)

It wasn't all celebration at the end of segregation

Topeka was synonymous, we had the lead plaintiff

(E City)

Oliver Brown was the talk around the nation

The decision was key to people with disabilities

(Zerul and Christyna)

We learned to sing with broken hearts

Welcomed diversity with open arms

Were living the dream but where'd it start

Brown was before King and Rosa Parks

(Buttrfli Jones)

The Jim Crow laws appointed to us were not morally just

It was 10-4 for Ken folks to be horrible to us

(SJ Hazim)

So we resisted, we took a stand by sitting

That good trouble to advance

be ready to dance

It's that simple

(Robinson Middle School)

The stars are aligned for a time like this

The stars are aligned for a time like this

We've waited far too long for a song like this

Like this, like this

We've waited far too long for a song like this

(Akapella)

We face challenges still, dreams awaiting wings

Affirmative actions fall was sobering

(Lamont Jackson)

Breaking news saying school education is on the brink

DEI initiatives are soon to be extinct

(Str8jakkett)

We take our civil rights for granted until our rights vanish

The white man got us under a tight standard

(Trevon Payne)

The right plan is getting it right, man

We're always better together where I stand

(Zerul and Christyna)

We learned to sing with broken hearts

Welcomed diversity with open arms

Were living the dream but where'd it start

Brown was before King and Rosa Parks

(Eric Patterson jr)

Advancements are intense and will always call for resistance

(Tierra Patterson)

And progress demands a courage that's within us

When we rise against divisions in the system, it's a lifelong commitment

(Eric Patterson jr)

To justice

Which is only discovered through persistence

(Cyrus and Chester)

The stars are aligned for a time like this

The stars are aligned for a time like this

We've waited far too long for a song like this

(Cyrus)

Like this, like this, like this

(Cyrus and Chester)

We've waited far too long for a song like this

(Seuss Mace)

Be present right here and now

The future has never waited

(Taeskii2x)

We must accept love and navigate past the hatred

(Roger Ortega)

Together we overcame

We ain't going back again

(Anonymous)

We need to learn from the past or it will repeat again

(Zerul

Sometimes we're inspired by others who aren't making a stand

Sometimes

(Cleveland Blue)

It requires

Everyone of us for making the plan

(Zerul and Christyna)

We learned to sing with broken hearts

Welcomed diversity with open arms

Were living the dream but where'd it start

Brown was before King and Rosa Parks

(Matt Spezia)

Vision to activism

Use ill privilege to advocate with em

Advancing our world versus its past

Poison unity

Move past and poison us for future's gift

Let's lift up fists so we can all live this love

We've been waiting too long