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Gary King - White People Get Away with It

from Still Singing Songs from the Inside by the Philadelphia Songwriter Community

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let them white people get away with it
let them white people get away with it

most everybody claims
it ain’t about the color of your skin
despite what they say
turns out that it is

we marched peaceful in the streets
fighting for our rights
instead of solidarity
they came and shot out the lights

rubber bullets
billy clubs
flash bangs at night

but when the white man stormed the capitol
they take selfies with a big smile

let them white people get away with it
let them white people get away with it
let them white get away with it
let them white people get away with it

now they’ll try to distract you
with the clips that they play
they just love to turn poor black people
into click bait, crime scene TV

but when the looter wear’s a suit and a tie
they get way more respectability
never focused on the why
only on the who and the what and the where
meantime strong black and brown people been struggling all thru the years

let them white people get away with it
let them white people get away with it
let them white get away with it
let them white people get away with it

hey we gotta situation here
all these years been fed lies we live in fear
we gotta a lot of work to do
before we in the clear
we gotta have the hard conversations
wanna come together as a nation
oh but you can’t have unity
with no accountability
and letting them

white people get away with it
no more white people gettin away with it
no more white people gettinaway with it
no more white people get away with it

hey now
done been trynna have this conversation
this is a safe space
unlike reconstruction
or when they redlined the black population
limiting their intergenerational wealth creation
colin kaepernack, BLM
was never the problem

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from Still Singing Songs from the Inside, released March 5, 2021
Gary King: vocals
Shawn Hennessey: guitar, drums, percussion, bass
Music and Lyrics by Gary King

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Emily Joy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Raised on a steady diet of folk music and with a graduate degree in classical vocal performance, her style is sing-along-ready with sweet vocals and harmony. Emily Joy consistently produces glorious music that brings communities together.

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