The music plays, and I sway and sway
Dancing to sweet music all night and day
Pushing my troubles aside asea
Just let me dance and leave me be
“How can you dance?” they say and say
While your people are dead from day to day
How can you push your troubles asea?
When my Black son is hanging from a tree?
Lynched, raped and you just wanna let It be
Yes, the music plays, I sway and sway
Dancing to the music all night and day
Pushing my troubles aside away
But then one day, a light, a ray
Cause we all got shot says Game one day
And Usher says we still in chains
World problems erode away my sweet escape
And so I’m left to face the reality of today
Music was a void that let me escape away
But now I’m forced to see the boy hanging and swaying
The girl shot and laying
In her own pool of blood, and the trees, the trees
Soaked with the blood of Bloody Sunday
The sky is bleak because I no longer see
The brightness of the sweet music-filled day
My ears are open to hear the true music
Of people crying, I hear them pray and pray
For a brighter day
That will never come
If people just want to sway and sway
And not hear the lyrics being cried away
