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lyrics
(Chorus)
[Bob Marley]
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
[Myrlin]
Verse one is for my fam.
Number two is for my fam.
Number three is for my fam
wherever you at to where ever I am.
(Verse One)
Music
can never be just one color or one hue.
When they try to make it all black or white,
man, it feels untrue.
Blue
pours from the rainbow within.
Ever since I was a young kid,
man, I knew I had brown skin.
Running through the hot sun,
little chamaco young blood,
mixed Mogli man cub, I hung
in a small town near a river,
the only brown kid in sight
walking home from school in the winter.
This white kid would throw snow and ice,
the toughest one, man, he stole my bike.
See my Pops came from poor Irish-English whites,
and my mama was Chicana, held it down for La Raza,
and I was proud of who I was
cuz that’s what my Mom and Pops taught us:
soy mestizo, poquito gringo, man, I’m good people.
[Bob Marley]
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
(Verse Two)
To the rescue it came,
the music my Mom played
back in the day, hidin’ out from the pain.
Temptations, Sly and the Family Stone,
Etta James, Marvin Gaye, and Nina Simone.
Hector Laboe to Pedro Infante, adelante!
We work hard in the yard on Saturday,
Lola Beltran and Bob Marley pumpin’ loud from my front lawn.
The neighbors watch and the neighbors pause
like, “Who sung that song?”
until my mom hit skip track,
hit em with that “Volver.”
Give the white neighbors heart attacks.
They go, “Yappity-yap. I can’t listen to that Spanish crap.”
Up in they houses like, “Where’s my Willie Nelson at?”
And my momma got Nelson, too,
but would rather move to
Ray-Bob-Charles-Marley
chopin’ Country, grass, and Roots!
(Chorus)
[Bob Marley]
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
(Verse Three)
At my window I heard the first three hit the glass.
Splat, I trembled. Woke up, eggs drippin’.
White boys in the truck straight dippin.
I remember how I found the words written,
Beaner. Die. Wetback. Spic.
All over my car, they wrote that shit.
At the dance, they wanna break my back with a brick
cuz all the white girls liked the way I was freakin it.
It went black!
Crash when they smashed my head
on the black top like a bat on the asphalt!
Woozy. . .
I woke up re-arranged in a Tupac lyric
like Bob Marley “used to sing to me,
had me feeling like” free “was the thing to be.”
Some say, ‘The blacker the eye, then the deeper the bruise.’
I say, ‘The sweeter pain, then the deeper the blues.’
[Bob Marley]
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
To the rescue, here I am.
Want you to know ya’ll.
Can you understand?
In the morning
ya’ll know the rainbow.
Want you to know, I’m a rainbow, too.
In the morning
ya’ll know the rainbow.
Want you to know, I’m a rainbow, too.
credits
from The Funky Autopsy,
released July 3, 2013
Audio Engineer: DJ Foundation. Lyrics: Myrlin Hepworth. Original Mash-up Created by Cee-Roo (Check out his work here www.youtube.com/user/cyrou )
Poet, emcee and teaching artist Myrlin Hepworth has written and performed across the United States. In addition to visiting
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