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The Light Fades

from Don Jr. by Don Jr.

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lyrics

Slow like black strap molasses
With your hands to the sky.
It's the tone of your skin.
It's the fire in your eyes.
Slow the motorcade creeps
To the White House, black gates.
It's the winter white skin
'tween red and the blue.
Slow the national anthem
Or the progress of man,
Or the death of a dream.
Such a stillborn relief.
Slow. There's nowhere go
And all of a sudden there's nowhere to run.
Hands up don't shoot.

Do you feel American yet? Do you have your hand on her neck? Slow, the blood drains. Black, the light fades.

Slow, put your knees to the ground.
Don't you dare turn around.
Don't you open your mouth.
Can you breathe?
How bout now?
like the heat of the night
And the pulse in your veins.
With your hand at your side...
Don't you train for this?
Fast like you've practiced before,
Like you dreamed of the power,
living black and red color.
Fast like the tear on the cheek
Of a baby to young to know what to do with a murder.

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from Don Jr., released December 31, 2018
Mastered by Travis Thatcher.

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