Common
Strange Fruit - [Social Revolution - Negro Civil Rights USH]
[Billy Holliday Sample]
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Stranger Fruit

[Chorus]
Dance little brother, don’t give up the fight/
Hang on 'til tomorrow, the truth will come to light/
Dance little sister, don't give up today/
Hang on 'til tomorrow, tonight we celebrate, celebrate/

[Verse 1]
Black bodies on the wall, color from years ago/
It's spiritual the way that them tears they fell slow/
Roots and bruises so deep, found it hard to sleep/
Souls lost in the heat, pray to God to keep/
Fast forward to my pop, he nod and geeked-off the heron/
still he was there to bear arms/
thats where I’m from, my story ain’t that different from yours/
a blood line a hard time, prisons and wars/
With struggle it came rain, when it rains it pours/
We stayed between liquor stores, and "praise the Lord"/
Singing "we shall overcome" cause we came for more/
We were dancing for it to rain no more/
Though hurricanes and waves they came ashore/
takin' lives of the brave and poor, they'd ignore, us once again, but it was lessons in the wind/
of change that came from within/
So...

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
Wonder if i make it to heaven, will I get a chance to party and celebrate with the great black bodies/
Im talkin' bout Marley, Nina, and Marcus Garvey/
Similar to Africa the streets is our safari/
From Ashanti to slums, is children with guns/
AIDS and poverty killing our young/
Gramps keep sayin a savior gon' come, for the meek and the humble favor gon' come/
From the same trees we were hung, we can see the sun/
In the darkest hour, our power begun/
I write from the same place they were bleedin' from/
I'm emceein they done until the streets is won/
So far we've come, with so far to go/
To do the impossible only God will know-how we do it, i speak it and put it into music/
The struggle lives through it, its a revolution so move it/

[Chorus x2]