Listening To Bill Withers Lyrics

Sometimes you just gotta let your pen cry

You could read the writing on the walls

Or the windows boarded up

Nobody's gonna save us but us

You could trust that the virus might change

But the pandemic's the same

Capitalism has got the world in flames

And it's been that way since folks were brought in chains

Over false land claims, gunshots and small pox

My pops used to tell me to beware of the cross

I was homeschooled about Alcatraz and The Longest Walk

His whole life was Marx

And we grew apart

And then pops broke his back and had attacks in his heart

He's fighting cancer now while letting cigarettes spark

And the hospital bills are just off the chart

We want to save our elders but some will break your heart

I keep my head down and focus til we out of the dark

Listen to Bill Withers sing and it seems less hard

Cause my grandmother's hands and her sons not far

We gonna need each other now like never before

For the laborers that's out now saving the world

And for the disabled folks we shoulda listened to more

It's a war going on outside, no one is safe but

Home is a place so many loved ones run from

And I know that a shelter in place gon kill some

Nobody's gonna save us but us

So say something

To anyone you miss

For every struggle that exists

We can take the weight of the world if we all lift

We can take the weight of the world if we all lift

This global pandemic

It's economic

It's all of us

Hurting, uncertain

Moments that make a person

A generation

The curses of mediocrity haunted us

Old white aristocracy following teleprompters

On every channel this evening

Stay in place for a season

Pray to what you believe in

That who you love stays breathing

The hospitals overflowing

It's better to stay home

But what's it all mean when that options gone

Cuz home's not a house for more than I can count

And the government's not 'bout to bail no poor folks out

It's all hands on deck

Do everything to protect

The most vulnerable with whatever you got left

Cuz nobody's gonna save but us

Grocery store workers, and the drivers of the trucks

Hospital staff who are short on scrubs

Community kitchens

And organizers, what's up

I want to say rest in peace to Ty

A UK hip-hop legend

The first person from London in fact to reach out to me way back, in the mid-2000's

I want to say rest in peace to Bill Withers

One of the greatest songwriters to ever live

I want to say rest in peace to Tony Allen

A pioneer of Afrobeat

I want to say rest in peace to Ms. Betty Wright

Rest in peace to Little Richard

And so many more

And I want to send love to anyone and everyone

Who lost someone in this time