Reparations (The Repair)
Lawrence Watson
Intro-Spoken
Twenty-Two million black victims of Americanism are waking up (Malcolm X)
People are looking over to the United States of America today they are wondering what are we doing about this problem (Martin Luther King)
Well you and I have been sitting long enough and it time to day for us to start doing some standing
(Malcolm X)
That's the Price that The United States must pay (Martin Luther King)
There's freedom for everybody or freedom for Nobody (Malcolm X)
We must act now (Martin Luther King)
We've been the poor, and the used and the disdained and abused
DWB: Driving While Black
WWB: Walking While Black
SWB: Standing While Black
THE TIME IS NOW!! (Lead)
Verse 1
Don't think I've forgotten
What you've done to me
Bombings, Castrations, lynchings, killings
Are part of my reality.
This just can't go on
I won't be your slave
Butler, Nanny, Negro, quick trade,
Driver, or your maid
I want my land without your urban plan
The promise was made
Now it's time to be paid
Chorus-Ensemble
We want reparations
For the african nation.
No more deliberation.
We’re losing our patience
Verse 2-Lead
Can't you see I'm determined
to be free?
We shed too many tears
Over the years.
Don't give me your lies.
I still have my pride.
All the hell you raise
Still my people do survive.
I know we can turn our nation around
Pay your debt with interest
And a new Black Nation will resound
Chorus-Ensemble
Reparations
Is compensation
For the humiliation.
Degradation of our nation
Bridge-Lead(Ensemble)
We will be free
No longer in poverty
One God! One Aim! One Destiny!
(Soon we'll all be free!)
Spoken
It's time for healing to take place in the land
Too many have given their lives for the dream
(Soon we'll all be free!)
It's time for us to become one nation
Charity starts at home
Do it for our children Do it for our Future
(Soon we'll all be free!)
Vamp
I’ve known rivers, (Free!)
and I have climbed Mountains (Free!)
I've walked in the Valleys (Free!)
My feets is tired (Free!)
But my soul is rested (Free!)
But I will never never, never, never turning back
Outro-Ensemble
We want Reparations
for the African Nation.
Compensation!
Spoken
It’s time to turn this around. Over a million Black men in prison and the rest of us under some form of house arrest.
Outro-Ensemble
We want Reparations
for the African Nation.
Compensation!
40 acres.
40 acres.
40 acres
40 acres and a mule!
Repeat as desired