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jane siberry - bailout (ubuntu) كلمات أغنية

[verse 1]
do i have this right?
so if you have money
you can slap down your credit card (where?) right there
and go home, order pizza, and watch tv in your recliner chair?
but if you can’t pay bail
they guarantee you’ll show up for your court date
by holding you in jail
which can last for months, even years
like you’ve already been sentenced? (so much for habeas corpus)

[verse 2]
this is the infamous cash bail system and it penalizes the poor
of course, this is not out of the blue
it’s the result of a much larger, ongoing issue
we know our world is very suck
and these mass incarcerations are just one
of many festering and often racism_infested manifestations

[bridge]
martin luther king: “only light can drive out darkness”

[verse 3]
and it’s not just in america, it’s all around the world
how can it not be
when greater self_gain is idolized and not the greater good?
when excess wealth is flaunted for all the world to see
and when we’re told to do whatever is good for the greater greed
[verse 4]
but even as this, is this:
there are so many people working hard everywhere to create change
in the case of the cash bail system:
the bail project
naacp (jay_z)
rikers bailout (bail out mamas)
aclu (michael k. williams)
east st. louis join hands
peace warriors
to name a few
and akeem browder, brother of
kalief

[verse 5]
he was only sixteen, barely out of childhood
allegedly stole a backpack
and he was sent to one of the most predatory
and dangerous jails in the usa: rikers
so many held him fiercely in their hearts
but when he was finally released after three years
he was too broken, too traumatized
and two years later he took his own life
kalief browder: say his name
venida brower: say his mother’s name
oh, how many tears can a person cry?
say their names, their names are our names, say our names
[chorus]
if one of us is in darkness, less bright our light shall be
if one of us is suffering, then none of us are free
if one of us is in darkness, less bright our light shall be
if one of us is suffering, then none of us are free

[verse 6]
imagine if every government or corporation
only made decisions after meditation
then filtered them through the question
“would this be good for every living thing?”
this would immediately rule out the cash bail system
extreme military spending over homelessness and healthcare
and poisoning our sacred waters and air

[verse 7]
imagine how the money saved
could be used to double the salaries
of our highly underpaid essential workers
nurses, teachers and the farmers who grow our food (imagine)
imagine a world where instead of judging others, we simply asked
“how can be better serve our sisters and our brothers?”

[bridge]
gandhi: “be the change we want to see”
[chorus]
if one of us is in darkness, less bright our light shall be
if one of us is suffering, then none of us are free
if one of us is in darkness, less bright our light shall be
if one of us is suffering, then none of us are free
if one of us is in darkness, less bright our light shall be
if one of us is suffering, then none of us are free (no, no)
if one of us is in darkness, less bright our light shall be
if one of us is suffering, then none of us are free

[outro]
jesus: “to love love
with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our might”
to love love

- jane siberry

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