Demon Child
Ain’t shit, never gonna be shit
That’s what they say
Preacher, teacher, civilized society
What’s civilized?
Phony!
Civility is white man’s word
Bought with blood and corpses
Civilized kill indians
Civilized kill niggas
Civilized drone bombs
Civilized gentrification
Civilized lynch mob
Civilized kill Huey Malcolm Martin Bunchy
Uncivilized Mao
Uncivilized Mau Mau
Uncivilized Lumumba
Uncivilized Gonzalo
Uncivilized FergusonBaltimoreChicago
Uncivilized people’s war
Uncivilized revolutionary violence
Nobody cares, do you?
Proudly uncivil
They shot my brother down
I hit a cop in the face with a brick
I am the demon child
Millions of us
Nobody cares
I’m a problem
Bound for prison slave hell
When I die they throw me in the garbage dump
Fam has to sell plates or beg to give me a funeral
Lie in the morgue for 8 months
Nobody cares, do you?
No job for demon child
Maybe McDonald’s, sell weed on the side
Put a pistol in your face
Gimme your wallet
Break in your store
Take the cash register
Dunno, whatever
Stops my moms from starving to death
Baby need clothes
Baby need shoes
But they call me a deadbeat
I risk all to feed mine
You chained to a desk miserable
Who the deadbeat?
The police care now
You don’t
One more demon child gone to hell
Police kill me
Fake ass preacher come to control the devil children
Vote!
Open a community center!
Ain’t gonna work
Same shit for 50 years
Nobody gives a fuck
Couple professionals a few dollars
Devil child still in hell
Ain’t shit gone change
Until we change it
Keep your community center
Keep your ballot
Keep your civility
We’ll go ahead and make history
Over your corpse if need be
And when we do
And remake society in our image
See who then is civilized
When the babies are fed
And the martyrs are remembered
And the elders are honored for real
And everybody got a house
And everybody got a good job
And Darren Wilson up against the wall
And the streets don’t have potholes
And the drones in the museum
And the people live long and the enemies short
And we all live on that mountaintop
For real, on Earth, not in the hereafter
Cuz we are our own God
God is the People
And the people impose their will
Without your permission
Bottom rail on top boss
That’s what my ancestors said
After the civil war
In Mississippi Georgia Alabama Texas
Their work undone
Democratic revolution
Cheated and robbed
We will see soon
Who is shit and who ain’t shit
And settle some blood debt
Fuck around and find out.
