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lyrics

(Chorus)

They keep tellin’ me my people
really wanna sing my song.
But I’m like yo, my people,
I really wanna sing your song.

(Verse One)

I know this dude named Mack.
He wake up in the mornin’, pack a bull, strike a match.

Play that scratch: Talib Kweli,
Blue Scholars, and a little Ozomatli.

Yeah, he got implicated a couple years back in a robbery.
Now he can’t find a job moppin’ the floor in the lobby.

Know this girl name Stacey.
Ride the bus home after work at Macy’s.

Frankly, she’s got a whole lot of love,
but doesn’t know where to give it.
Waitin’ on the one.
Patience has it limits.

Vivid
how Mack and Stacey
be mackin’ outside the party crazy.
Bicardi lust-love drunk.
Outkast “Rosa Parks” on bumps.
Now say what?

You know, they hooked up for like three months.
Honeymoon phase can’t last.
Now they wonderin,’ what they really have.

(damn)

(Chorus)

They keep tellin’ me my people
really wanna sing my song,
but I’m like yo my people hey,
I really wanna sing your song.

And they tellin’ me we equal

I’m like why, wha, why you lockin’ up these people?

(Verse Two)

Spark the leño.
Check my cuento about a man named Beto.

El viejo crossed the border like a hundred times
just to work in hard and provide para familia.

Last night on the drive,
traffic light, blind side,
hit by a semi.
In the hospital, Beto’s wife—dies.

Beto lonely, singing, “Oh why?”

The lobby gets crazy.
Some busy body lady, some busy body doc,
look at Beto’s paper work, and they start to talk.

No green card. No visa.
Aye mira, mira: anonymous call to La Migra.

Lagrimas pour down Beto’s cheeks
while some busy body lady calls the police.

Like “Hurry, come soon.
We got an illegal in room 2-oh-6.

He doesn’t speak English.”


(Chorus)

Can’t loose faith in the People,
but the system is evil.

And when you’re lookin’ at the hard things
Remind yourself that
people do beautiful things,
people do beautiful things,
people do beautiful things,
people do beautiful, crazy, ugly, ugly, crazy, beautiful things.


(Verse Three)

Now Mack and Stacey ‘bout to have a baby,
but they ain’t ready
to become Baby Momma Stacey
or Baby Daddy Mac, that’s a fact.

Yo, Play that Scratch: “waa waa wa wa waa.”

Now,
Betos weepin’ while INS is creepin’,
singing corridos like the Mexican Blues.
Sheriff’s outside ready to sweep the hopsital room like a broom.

Oh oh oh

The door opens, he sees a white coat
doctor walkin’ towards his bed with a stethoscope

sayin’ “Hurry, please. We got to go.
Aburrase por favor ven conmigo.”

yeah

Lady doctor, raised in Phoenix proper.
Modern Harriet Tubman, no frontin’.
She got parents from Jalisco.

Aye, Dios mio!
She sneaks Beto out the back in a body bag.
Now he prays for his hijos.

credits

from The Funky Autopsy, released July 3, 2013
Audio Engineer: DJ Foundation. Lyrics: Myrlin Hepworth. Instrumental Created by Sabzi of the Blue Scholars originally used on the song “Cruz.”

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Myrlin Phoenix, Arizona

Poet, emcee and teaching artist Myrlin Hepworth has written and performed across the United States. In addition to visiting nearly 30 high schools each year, he makes a living with his art by performing at universities, youth centers, group homes, museums, and theaters. Hepworth has competed in 3 National Poetry Slams and coaches the Phoenix team at Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam ... more

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