we them people Lyrics

We them people

We say

We them people

We the people

We are those people

We want to be free

We gonna be free

Let's get free

Let's get free yo

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

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We them people

We them people

Dream on

Dreamer

The way Alvin Ailey

And Maya Angelou

And George Floyd

And Breonna Taylor

Dreamed of

Southern-baked

Pilgrims

Dancing and

Slow marching

Their sorrows

Down the yellow

Brick roads

Of

Second-line members

Humming from

The heels of their dirt-kissed feet:

I wanna be ready/to put on my long white robe....

We are survivors

We are survivors

We are survivors

Of people

Who were free

And became slaves

Of people

Who were slaves

And became free

We know why the caged bird sings

We know what a redemption song brings

We them people

We the people

We are those people

Who shall never forget

Our ancestors all up in us as we sleep

Our grandmother all up in us as we weep

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

Because we are

Native american

Black irish welsh french german polish italian

Jewish puerto rican mexican greek russian

Dominican chinese japanese vietnamese

Filipino korean arab middle eastern

We are biracial and we are multicultural

We are bicentennial and we are new millennial

We are essential and we are frontline

We are everyday people and we are people everyday

We are #metoo we are #metoo we are #metoo

We are muslim christian hebrew too

We are bible torah koran atheist agnostic truer than true

We are rabbis and imams and preachers and yoruba priests

Tap-dancing with buddhists and hindus and rastafarians

As the Nicholas Brothers

Jump and jive and split the earth in half

While Chloe and Maud Arnold

Them syncopated ladies

Twist and shout and stomp and trump

Hate

Again

Again

Again

Yeah

We them people

We them people

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We them people

We them people

We them people

Still we rise still we surprise

Like we got Judith Jamison's crying solo in our eyes

Every hello ain't alone every good-bye ain't gone

We are every tongue every nose every skin

Every color every face mask

We are mattered lives paint it black

We are mattered lives paint it black

We are mattered lives paint it black

We are every tattoo every piercing every drop of blood

Every global flood

We are straight queer trans non-gender conforming

We are she/he/they

We are disabled abled poor rich

Big people little people in between people

We are protesters pepper-sprayed with knees on our necks

We are protesters pepper-sprayed with knees on our necks

We are protesters pepper-sprayed with knees on our necks

We them people

We them people

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We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We them people

We the people

We are those people

Who will survive

These times

Because we done

Survived

Those times

Where pandemics were

Trail of tears and lynchings and holocausts

Where pandemics were

No hope and no vote and no freedom spoke

We them people

We the people

We are those people

While our planet gently weeps

While our planet gently weeps

We bob and bop

Like hip-hop

Across the tender bones

Of those tear-stained photographs

To hand to

This generation

The next generation

Those revelations

Yeah

That blues suite

Yeah

That peaceful dance

Inside a raging tornado

We call

Love

Oh say we them people

We them peep

Love

Ha ha

Love

Oh

We them people

We them peep

We them people

Somebody yell

We them peep

We them people

Twist and shout and stomp and trump

Hate

Again

We them people

We are the people

We them peep

Let's get free

We them peep

Somebody tell them

We them peep

Somebody tell them

We them peep

Free

We them peep

Free

We them peep

We them peep

We are the people

We them people

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We the people

We are those people

We them people

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