Sorrow, Tears & Blood (2022 Mix)

Lyrics

[Refrain: Bilal (with Dwight Trible and choir)] Everybody run, run, run (Hey yeah!) Everybody scatter, scatter (Hey yeah!) Some people lost some bread (Hey yeah!) Someone nearly die (Hey yeah!) Someone just die (Hey yeah!) Police dey come, army dey come (Hey yeah!) Confusion everywhere (Hey yeah!) Several minutes latеr (Hey yeah!) All done cool down, brothеr (Hey yeah!) Police done go away (Hey yeah!) Army done dispair (Hey yeah!) Them just leave... [Chorus: Bilal (with Dwight Trible and choir)] Them leave sorrow, tears, and blood (Them regular trademark!) Them leave sorrow, tears, and blood (Them regular trademark!) That is why...! (Hey yeah!) [Break 1: Zap Mama, vocalizing & scatting] [Break 2: Dwight Trible and choir vocalizing & harmonizing] [Verse 1: Common] Years of tears and sorrow Leave me to never fear tomorrow Food for thought that some never appear to swallow Raw as the wind of Chicago The way they slayed art Destroying light Them regular trademark God is watching Yeah, God is watching and observing Ready to serve justice to those that are deserving Several minutes later – The creator will innovate a way to... Pay the police and the beast of supposed righteousness And all we can do is just fight, and just... Live Yeah... just live [Interlude: Excerpt of Fela Kuti interview dialogue] They beat the shit out of me But see, I didn't die Because, see, my name is Aníkúlápó I have death in my pouch, I can't die They can't kill me [Verse 2: Bilal] Ha, ha, hoo, hee... Fela Kuti... I have t-t-too many words to say Too many things are danginling, dangling in my head Confused man Trapped With no solution Because mere words could never explain, or even... Constitute the FONK-y situation that really went on in the days of my man Mr. Fela Kuti, and all the things, the many wives he had, ha... A Red Hot situation, "no water, no enemy" Just sorrow, tears and blood And the hopes of millions Dead from a curse It hurts my heart, I'm broken... [Verse 3: Tiombe Lockhart] Why... why... why, why do they hurt you when... They say they're happy for you? Why... why... why, why do you get up when... You always seem to fall down? But I'll be strong They won't last long I'll sing my song To get along They don't know... They don't know... When they hurt you, it's like... Hurt you, you just... Leave, leave, leave, leave... [Bridge: Bilal] Just sorrow, tears, and blood Hey, yeah... Just sorrow, tears, and blood Hey, yeah... It's just sorrow, tears, and blood Ohhh.... Sorrow, tears, and blood... [Refrain 2: Bilal (with Dwight Trible and choir)] Everybody run, run, run (Hey yeah!) Everybody scatter, scatter (Hey yeah!) Someone nearly died (Hey yeah!) Some people just died (Hey yeah!) Police dey come, politic dey come (Hey yeah!) Confusion everywhere (Hey yeah!) Several minutes later (Hey yeah!) All done cool down, brother (Hey yeah!) Police done go away (Hey yeah!) Army done dispair (Hey yeah!) They just leave... Them leave sorrow, tears, and blood (Them regular trademark!) Them leave sorrow, tears, and blood (Them regular trademark!) That is why...! (Hey yeah!) Ohh...... They leave sorrow, tears, and blood! Sorrow, tears, and blood!!!