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Center Of The Storm

from Never Mind The Title by Rico Pabón & Headnodic

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lyrics

Center of the Storm
© Rico Pabón

We shall not surrender until the reign is gone You stand in the center
the center of the storm...
A dedication to my peoples on the front line
standing for justice with the fist up like a sunrise
those the folks who chose the road to tow the tough line
hold it steady ever ready never run at crunch time
rain, hail, sleet, snow, marching in the freezing cold
meeting on the weekends planning how to get to freedom road dreaming and scheming on how we gonna defeat the foe,
you’re the lighthouse in the storm, we can see the glow
when it goes down
you stand up
when a man’s down
you woman up
lift us up
give us love and strength when it’s hard
you’re the voice when we’re hopeless and don’t know how to respond now
imagine if it all just flipped
I mean the world changed, rearranged, you didn’t have to trip
simple mathematics eradicated the nonsense
like money for schools not the military complex
they could fix it all for the cost of one bomb test
a choice between life and death, it’s no contest
we married to the system, livin with it all stressed
it’s cheaper to keep it but does it really cost less?
imagine life without the worry of debt
when you can walk the streets without your skin color posing a threat imagine private prisons closed down, turned into libraries
filled with books instead of bodies still alive and buried
and the block’s safe
cuz it’s hunger free
and the cops are great
ain’t no takin knees
bigotry’s six feet deep pushin up daisies
and Black lives matter no if’s, but’s or maybe’s
all the babies of Earth valued at birth and know that they’re worth more than platinum steeples on any catholic church
and the climate’s balanced like the planet’s gone in reverse
you the one who saw the smoke before the fire got worse
and it’s work

but when it goes down you stand up
when a woman’s down you man up
lift us up
give us love and strength when it’s hard
you’re the voice when we’re hopeless and don’t know how to respond
We shall not surrender until the reign is gone You stand in the center
the center of the storm...

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from Never Mind The Title, released October 20, 2020

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