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Do you really need a snuff film
To believe that this could happen to me?
Does it really take a snuff film
For the world to show a little empathy?
It's been happening every day for four centuries
The only thing that seems to change is technology

A cop kills me in a snuff film
And says I resisted his authority
A stranger kills me in a snuff film
And says he saw a potential threat in me
Who believes that I'm able to kill a heavily armed man
With nothing more than the strength of my skinny piano hands?

And are you gonna wait for Shaun King
To tweet the snuff film before you march for me?
My ghost will be too busy haunting
The jury that let my killer walk scot-free
I'll be the gust that blows the burning cross and lets the fire spread
When every white hood is reduced to ash, and the whole Klan is dead
Who's gonna film that instead?

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from The Cocker Spaniels Are Still Alive, and So Are You, released August 13, 2021

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I'm a 41-year-old Black dad who likes Prince and Guided by Voices a lot, so I try to make music that splits the difference. I play and sing everything most of the time, but my friends Alan and Stephen help me out sometimes. Please check my stuff out and say hello! ... more

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