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TANNER: It's just fantastic.

So what you're talking about here

is a fairly typical acid pickled low altitude lake, right?

Typical?

Uh--

Well, low alconites, low pH, high levels of aluminum.

And you've obviously got the usual associated

diebacks of what, red spruce?

Yeah. We see some of that.

Sure. - Sure.

And your headwaters in the area are

susceptible to acidification.

That's because of the--

Sure.

Because the alconites are what, 20--

- Yeah, them. - --20 parts per million, maybe?

Yeah. Well, and then some.

Yeah.

So what do you think it means in terms of total applications

of sodium?

Well, it's hard to say.

Um, it's a lot, I know that.

A lot.

So for Michigan, it's time for a change.

Heh.

Wouldn't you say?

Long overdue, if you ask me.

Sure.

Thanks a lot, my friend.

No problem.

Right.

Wait just a second-- wait a minute.

We'll take a couple of pictures.

Oh.

[sigh]

It looks just like a Fellini film I saw.

TANNER: God.

Do you ever get tired of that view?

Yeah. Sometimes.

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE AND THE HIP HOP FORCE]

(SINGING) I can't believe it.

A Michigan ranger is bored with life and wants some changes,

but he doesn't really know what's going on today,

the tin man is taking all the paper.

Not mine, because I bust rhymes.

It's not as simple as some assembly line,

because they don't get paid or take no drug tests.

And my dad is more or less on a permanent rest.

For a machine, a man-made thing, taking over the jobs

that human beings once used to use just to stay alive.

Yeah.

Only the strong survive, but still it's tougher than skin,

like all the stickers in water.

So Mr. Ranger, I think you oughta

keep working with the bear and cool out in the forest.

We cried out already, but they ignored us.

Take a hammer, cut, build and screw,

100% better than we used to do.

It all came with the turn of the decade, a crucial move

but the change was made, so now we're properly

stricken, ill and sickened.

The bill collectors keep stickin' the bills,

I ain't ill is how I feel.

Come to Detroit if you want the real deal of changes.

We need some changes.

We need some changes.

(ROBOTIC VOICE) I understand we have a special guest

in the audience today.

Candidate Jack Tanner, the man who wants to be president.

Which one of you is Jack Tanner?

You're Jack Tanner, sir?

Gee, you're a lot shorter than you look on television, sir.

Let me shake your hand.

It's nice to meet you, sir.

You know, I'm curious about one thing, Mr. Tanner.

Aren't you the man who told Jesse Jackson

that you're in favor of drugs?

Didn't you say that to Jesse Jackson in the debate,

that you favor drugs? Didn't you?

I don't favor drugs.

Certainly not.

I, uh-- I favor taking a look at legalizing drugs.

(ROBOTIC VOICE) Are you sure?

Are you sure that you don't want drugs to be sold to everybody

at very cheap prices?

Come on.

What do you really think?

Have you ever smoked pot yourself?

What about cocaine?

Have you ever done cocaine?

We robots don't, uh, do drugs.

But what about you?

What about your pretty aide here with the funky earrings?

I bet she uses drugs.

What about this guy with glasses?

I bet he uses drugs. Come on.

What's the real story?

I don't know.

Things happen to this man, people.

He is constantly being overtaken by events.

And I gotta tell you, I think a lot of this stuff

could be avoided.

We are talking the most basic advance work here.

I don't think that's too much to ask.

A little thought about the photo ops.

I could have prevented the candidate

from being made a fool of and upstaged by a mechanical robot.

Christ.

He was talking to it like-- like he was with Dukakis.

I want to show a man who can relate to people, not machines.

I said I was sorry, Mrs. Cavanaugh.

Well.

Saying "I'm sorry" may make you feel better, Andrea,

but it doesn't protect my candidate--

For Pete's sake, Mrs. Cavanaugh--

Well, golly, it's days, Miss Spinelli.

I guess everything must just do fine.

Sorry, my mistake.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Gee, you know, that really takes me back.

I remember the first time you reduced me to tears.

Do you?

Don't forget it.

OK.

Detroit.

Talk to me, children.

Who's working on what?

Stevie, how's the thing with the mothers?

Well, we're on for Tuesday.

I'd give that as much time as it takes.

He'll be talking to the walking wounded.

All these families have lost children.

He can't just blow in there and out.

OK, OK, clear the whole evening.

What else?

We've got the governor's reception at the Trapper's

Alley, and barring no overrun by CBS taping,

it will be on the schedule, and then

we're gonna go to press conference right after.

Good.

Yeah, we've got two volts and a phone bank.

What we don't have is something to announce.

Yes, we do-- we got the cabinet, Jack.

He's going to announce the cabinet.

No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

Too early.

We don't even have commitments from four of them.

Oh, great.

Look-- how about if we just go with a partial list, you know?

We just bring out the heaviest guns we got.

Jordan-- what is it?

Uh, Robert Redford, Secretary of the Interior--

You know Robert Redford?

Big-- ordinary Bob?

Yeah, I know him.

Secretary Bob [inaudible].

Wow.

Now, I have an idea. For Secretary of Education--

Are you guys talking a movie or something?

--let's appoint George Will.

As soon as he accepts, we'll abolish the post.

Television as propaganda, that kind of thing.

No, no, Will should be Chief of Protocol.

George knows his finger bowls.

Right.

Oh, I love it.

Make me offer to follow through with Art Buchwald as ambassador

to France.

I want to go at this with every angle we've got.

TJ-- you're not serious.

You bet I'm serious.

Why not?

This is the citizens' cabinet.

Could I get some more coffee?

It's, it's, it's for real.

It's imaginative.

And if people think the choices are a little bit off center,

well, so much the better.

It shows fresh thinking.

Oh, come on.

Stevie-- the whole point of this

little exercise is to get the focus

off the Jack and Joanna story.

The girlfriend factor is absolutely killing us.

And as long as we've got nothing new to say,

we are stuck with all the character questions

from that damned Seidelman and all

the other little baby alligators that keep showing up here.

SPINELLI: Mrs. Cavanaugh?

Mrs. Cavenaugh-- Mrs. Cavenaugh!

[laughter]

Look!

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE AND THE HIP HOP FORCE]

(SINGING) Another tin man shaking your hands, if you vote

for him and meet his demands.

Promising everything but delivering

nothin', with campaign speeches and political buttons.

We need some changes.

[interposing voices]

TANNER AIDE: Remember your district.

Oh, yeah, the great rush into Congress.

TANNER: Yeah.

Yeah.

It's just a statement that's very much

representative of the country.

A lot of people think that we're just

big auto plants, nothing more.

But you know, we just did a recent study,

and 91 of every 100 people who works in Michigan

do not work for the big three.

Now, the big three auto companies

are important, of course.

TANNER: Yeah.

But 91 of 100 work for someone else.

It's much more diversified, and much more

representative of the country.

And I think a candidate from Michigan,

like you, Jack, has a much better chance

than a lot of people think.

Deke-- what are you doing up there?

Hey, Moll, babe-- you're gonna love this.

Trust me.

Would you get down there?

Now!

TJ: You're doing terrific work on the platform.

And we think it's great that you're making

it as broad-based as possible.

So that we can get as many votes--

AUTO EXECUTIVE: Good.

--as we can.

And so that we are not alienating people.

We're bring people together, and redefining

the Democratic Party.

We're going to write it in a way

that any good Democrat, progressive Democrat, can win.

TANNER: Yeah. Glad to hear that.

Whether it's Jesse Jackson, or Jack Tanner,

or Michael Dukakis, or any of the others.

We want the candidates' input, but we want it to be

one all Democrats are proud of.

Especially Michigan Democrats.

Keep your skirt on, Mom.

You're going to love this.

What am I going to love?

This. This.

It's a thrill-cam.

Like the "Letterman" show, right?

Watch this.

Just a second.

Jack starts to make his speech, right?

I let the camera out here on a guidewire-- safety line, right?

The camera swoops in on him like a hawk.

Whoosh.

Get it? See?

You can pull in and out for camera shots--

it's a helicopter shot in a mall.

I want you downstairs in three minutes.

Or you can thrill-cam your ass back to New York.

Does fucking ABC have footage like this?

Do they?

I think not.

TANNER: Ladies and gentlemen, I can't tell you

how pleased we are about the wonderful reception

you've given us here today.

Just a few moments ago, my daughter, Alex-- where is Alex?

Here she is.

Just a few moments ago, my daughter Alex mentioned to me

how much of a lift it was to her spirits to be back in Michigan.

And I must say, I agree.

You know, as an Army kid, I had many homes.

But it all started for me right here.

The voters of Michigan have always been very good to me.

And I'm going to return the favor by not

giving any long speeches today.

I just want to say one thing.

Thank you.

You people are the best.

Congressman-- how badly do you think

your relationship with Miss Buckley has hurt the campaign?

Uh, I don't think it's--

What is your relationship now, Congressman?

Have you discussed strategy with Miss Buckley?

No, no, not at all.

Shit.

Jack--

[car horn blares]

TANNER: Honey, you know, we've got something

important to talk about.

ALEX: I know.

TANNER: You do?

We haven't taken a walk together in a while.

You dropping out of the race?

No.

I wouldn't do that.

Not after everything we've been through.

But I can't hurt Joanna anymore.

I mean, what happened yesterday is going to just happen over

and over again, and it doesn't make any difference that she's

left Dukakis, you know?

[sigh]

Honey, you know how we feel about one another, don't you?

You going to marry her?

Well, what do you think about that?

I think that's wonderful.

You do?

I think the most wonderful thing

I heard in a very long time.

Oh, Dad, I'm so happy for you.

Lexi, tell you the truth, I'm a little surprised.

I thought you-- I thought you didn't like her very much.

She's terrific.

She's swell.

What I didn't like was the situation.

Everybody having to pretend that nothing was going on.

This is so amazing.

Do you know where you're going to have the wedding yet?

How about Aunt El's house?

I-- I haven't even given it a thought.

Yeah, I don't even know if she's going to go for it.

Do you want me to ask her for you?

This is so exciting.

[organ music]

[humming]

OK.

Kids, we've got to be on the road in two hours.

Detroit in two hours, so please be ready.

All your stuff together, in the car, ready to go.

Oh, sewing buttons.

That's nice.

TANNER: Hey, Stevie?

What do you have for me? - Hey, Big Jack?

I'm glad you're here.

There is something I want you to see.

I don't have time for a critique, Barney.

Jack, I wouldn't bring it up if it wasn't important.

You've got to trust me.

- You want to read these? - Huh?

And here, take a look at this.

This is what we got last night, and basically, it was the same

on all three local stations.

[interposing voices on tv]

Kid's crying.

I remember it.

[kids crying on tv]

BARNEY: See?

You see the problem, right?

I mean, this is not state-of-the-art baby kissing.

Now, you about this, Joanna.

Remember the old Dukester?

He had the same problem.

TANNER: Come on.

I thought one of them was going to piss on me.

Jack, the modern diaper doesn't leak.

I mean, that's not a problem.

What is a problem is that we are conceding

all that baby photo op action to Jesse.

Editors love this stuff.

News directors love it, and they use it.

And we have got to give it to them.

Right, Joanna?

Right?

He's just not comfortable with it, Barney.

Well, I think we can solve that little problem.

I think we can work it out.

Jack, I would like you to meet baby Heather.

BABY HEATHER: Hee, hee, hee.

Hee, hee, hee.

I'm happy.

Play with me.

BARNEY: What?

Hee, hee, hee.

Ice cream?

Hee, hee, hee.

I love you.

Hee, hee, hee.

[interposing voices offscreen]

Hey. Cutie.

Hey, Mom.

When are we gonna have the [inaudible]?

[interposing voices]

Andrea-- (SING-SONG) Andrea?

SPINELLI: Yeah, yeah, Mrs. Cavanaugh.

Donation pledges.

Log them.

Send the couriers to pick up the checks.

I want them deposited in the media disbursements account

before the bank closes-- which gives you about two hours.

OK?

Yes, ma'am.

Uh, Carrie, Susan?

Excuse me, Mrs. Cavanaugh.

Drop what you're doing.

I need you back here with your cards, pronto.

Boy.

And Reagan was probably--

Hi, how are you?

--Reagan was probably responsible for this specific

case, because of the, uh--

I'm sorry, David.

Sorry, David?

What's the problem?

Uh, we're all filled up.

What are you talking about, Stringer?

You're not even half filled.

Uh, we've got a lot of equipment on there.

Come in, Deke.

Oh, what the fuck is this?

You gotta be kidding me.

I'm sure you can rent a car.

TJ, I'm here.

I wanna talk to TJ.

I'd like to help you out, David,

but we've got to get going. We're in a hurry.

You understand.

See you in Motown, David.

What is Deke doing on here?

I thought he was fired.

You asshole.

Sophomoric.

That slap on the hand bullshit.

TJ.

Where is she?

Is she in there?

CAMPAIGN WORKER: Who?

TJ, what the hell is going on here?

Stringer doesn't let me get on the bus?

Now, listen, David, I would really

like to help you with your little travel problems,

but I'm kind of busy right now.

Andrea, would you show Mr. Seidelman the door?

I thought you were a little classier than that, huh?

David, you don't even know the meaning of class.

So this is your bullshit way of punishing--

SPINELLI: You are really in the doghouse, ever

since you did that story on Congressman

Tanner and his lover.

Andrea, please.

Come on.

Tamara, find Jerry.

Great.

Listen, I need these checks picked up by 2:00.

Do you understand?

They cannot be here any later than 2 o'clock.

Thank you.

Uh, Mr. Seidelman, one second.

OK, is that a problem?

Great. Thanks a lot.

Bye-bye.

You know, Andrea, I've been noticing a distinct--

Please don't say it.

Don't say what?

Please do not tell me how much I have grown in this job.

I have been patronized from New Hampshire to California

and back again, and I've really had enough of it,

thank you very much.

I know I've changed, Mr. Seidelman.

Would you like to know how I've changed?

I-- I can't imagine.

I'm no longer a nice person.

Great, huh?

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE AND THE HIP HOP FORCE,

"WE NEED A CHANGE"]

(SINGING) I can't believe it, all the dangers, it's up to us

to make the changes.

And since I brush 'round what I want to say,

'cause I don't feel that there's a better way to spread the word

to all those young ears.

The city streets are filled with fears, drugs

one, girls and pimps, and church doors

I considered as [inaudible].

Sly, why?

It's just a whole double streak--

Now, go straight ahead here.

[music playing]

[police siren]

TANNER: Jesus.

You really grew up here, Stevie?

STEVIE: It wasn't so bad then.

Believe it or not, people were lining

up to get into these projects.

There was no graffiti.

There was nowhere near the crime.

Detroit was different then.

There was still some hope in the streets.

(SINGING) We need some changes.

We need some changes.

How do we get from there to here?

It gets so much worse after all that was done.

(SINGING) Now I'm singing, so you know what?

The little kids are growing, each other away

and our problems still growing.

We need some changes.

Pigs.

We outta here.

RALLY ANNOUNCER: Vince, thank you very much, Vince.

Exercise your right to vote.

OK, we got a brother who's gonna bring a positive message

for you right now.

He's gonna steer you mind a little bit.

How about making him feel welcome?

His name is Earl.

How about it for Mr. Earl Henderson,

ladies and gentlemen? Earl Henderson.

[applause]

I'd like to recite a poem for you.

It's dedicated to Miss Melody Rucker and Clementine Barfield.

It's called "SoSad."

It's so sad when they die so young in a city

where no one cares.

There are too many funerals and too many guns.

Too many swords, and not enough ploughshares.

I've never held ill feelings to anyone,

till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

And I saw her, I swear, right before the shots.

Before the faces and friends and pallbearers in shock.

That music was a melody of bullets firing and flesh

tearing and breathing stopping and lives ending,

and I saw her, I swear, right before the shots.

And how could she know that we've lost children and souls,

while we've lost Detroit, while we've lost

DC, while Los Angeles bleeds.

Why should it take hundreds of young lives

to make people see that only in death

does there seem to be equal opportunity.

But I saw her, I swear, right before the shots,

on the porch where my baby stood.

Bloodstains are all I've got.

I've never held ill feelings to anyone,

till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Miss Clementine Barfield.

Can I have her come? [inaudible] works for, please?

Clementine Barfield, ladies and gentlemen.

This is our leader.

And we definitely appreciate the things

she's done for the city of Detroit,

and the recognition that she is so rightfully

receiving these days.

Center stage, my dear.

Um, for all of you that are here, we thank you.

There are other parents here who have

lost children, just as I have.

We have lost valuable dreams.

Hopes and futures, when we buried our children.

And we're going to start focusing

on some of those issues, because we have

issues to present to Tanner.

If we in America wanted to project

to the rest of the world that we were a strong country,

Washington, DC should be that model.

Instead, two blocks down the street from the White House,

there is poverty.

Devastation.

Drugs.

High suicide rate.

We need some changes.

And when we go to cast our votes,

that's when we can make changes.

RALLY MEMBER 1: Tell it, sister.

Mr. Tanner, we want some changes.

RALLY MEMBER 2: All right, yeah!

[interposing voices]

Jack, I have something that I'd like to give you, OK?

Now, this is something that-- that you can give to America.

That we're asking for.

Hope.

RALLY MEMBER 3: Now, that's right.

The brothers here-- and you can not go

to a young person and say, don't sell

dope and make all that money.

Go to school, get a four-year education.

You go to school, get a four-year education,

and there is no job.

He has no hope.

Now myself, I'm voting for Jesse Jackson.

Because that man's offered hope to America.

He is telling the young people-- he is standing up and saying,

you do have a choice.

Like this man is saying it, I came from hell, and I made it.

And you can make it.

The only way the American people

are going to know that we're losing

a generation of young people to the streets

is for you, today, to take advantage

of our presence and these cameras

and tell those people what's going on.

So I'm here to ask you about your lives,

and your experiences.

If you were president, would you

do to curtail the drug traffic and all the higher

echelon of the drug cartel?

How do you feel about legalizing the drugs?

RALLY MEMBERS: No. No.

No.

RALLY MEMBER 4: We can't do that.

I've gotta speak to the-- I've gotta speak to this, Tanner.

[interposing voices]

--you know, if we can't beat them, we gotta join it.

- Right. - OK?

Mm-hm.

You can't teach a whole generation of kids

that this is-- this is illegal.

It's immoral.

It's destroying you.

And then the next thing you do, you go and legalize it.

You can talk about macroeconomics, and the effects

that it'll have here.

The drugs problems here?

The reason there's no war on drugs being fought-- drugs are

there, but we haven't made anything

competitive to drug traffic.

Yo, if I'm gonna be 13 years old, and roll, and be a worker,

and make $300 a week, I'm going to do that.

But what we have to do is show some competition.

You can't go to a cat rolling and say, yo, don't roll.

Phew-- be for real.

I'm making bank.

You got to go to them and offer them an alternative.

And the only alternative that's realistic is education.

When we say we-- we even bring up something like legalization,

that's giving up.

Now this--

RALLY ANNOUNCER: I enforce what the other brother said.

There's no real fight.

The war on drugs?

What war on drugs?

RALLY MEMBER 6: Right.

RALLY ANNOUNCER: Congress is-- it's a joke.

I mean, we should use the Army.

We're constantly tying the hands of the Congressmen

and the people and our legislative bodies

who can't officially declare a war on drugs.

This ain't no war.

And I can say we can get the Army out.

I can-- I can-- we can make those statements, you know?

I can say that we will never legalize drugs,

and that we can have soldiers marching up and down

the streets, and I can go after these things,

but that's not what I'm here today to do.

I'm here to find out firsthand what's going on.

Let me tell you what you should do.

I'll tell you point blank what you should do.

You should work on the-- on the supply side,

and we going to take care of the demand side.

Because what we're both trying to tell--

I'm not going to go out and march, and I'm a veteran.

I'm not going to go out and march and patrol borders.

That's not realistic.

Excuse me.

But what I can do is go back to the communities

and speak in the language those kids can understand.

Communicate to them that there are options,

and delineate them realistically.

You don't say, yo, man, have some hope, man, and we gonna--

we gonna do something for you.

Say, yo, man-- my mother's on dope.

My sister's rolling.

It's just like that song by Ice T,

you know. "My homeboy got jacked, my sister's on crack,

my brother don't work 'cause his arm show tracks."

That's what's up.

What you do is work on the supply side.

You don't get into a trade-- a trade agreements with countries

that you know, like Bolivia, or Peru, that are importing this.

Now, we's working on the demand side.

We keep hearing-- we keep hearing

that somehow our federal government

is connected to the drug trade.

That the Contra Iran scandal was just a cover-up

for a Contra cocaine scandal.

And we're also hearing that somehow the Vice President,

with his CIA connections, was very, very knowledgeably

and purposely involved in that Contra cocaine scandal.

Senator Kerry is slowly bringing that material out

into the public, so that people are hearing that there was,

most likely, that connection.

And one of the things that I think you can do

is to clean house in the government, from top to bottom,

and get rid of these elected administration cocaine pushers.

And to stop Bush from getting in there,

because if he gets in there, a lot of those same things that

are touching every one of us in this city, and every city,

it's just going to keep on happening.

And we need a man like you, or a man like Jesse,

or a man like the Duke--

[interposing voices]

When we have a government-- when we have a government

that's in place now that puts people on the Supreme Court

that knocks down civil rights that's been going for years,

that takes away our hope.

No matter how hard we can work in a community,

we-- I shouldn't say we can-- so like I said, go to go to school

and get education when they see those job taken away from them.

That's right.

And the bear-- the bears that will

fight racism are not the way.

Now, I'm not accusing the president of being a racist.

But his-- his-- I'm not--

RALLY MEMBER 7: You mean-- you mean the candidate.

The present one is.

I'm talking about President Reagan-- I'm talking

about President Reagan.

I'm not accusing the president of being a racist.

But he is now force of right.

So that gives people an impression in the mind.

That's very important.

That's being very generous of you.

Well, I'm-- I'm being respectful.

Because I've not had an opportunity to talk to the man,

like I'm talking to you.

He has not come down here to the community like you are doing.

Like Jesse Jackson has done, and has done

before he ran for president.

Let's get back to the issue of our children.

OK?

That's what it's all about.

Saving our children.

You know, we can sit around here,

we can blame everything and everybody.

We were talking about changes.

But actually the changes must begin with us.

We've got to start with the White House

all the way down to my house-- you understand?

Your neighbor.

It's time for us to set the example.

I heard somebody say we need role models.

We're supposed to be the role models.

Do you understand?

Mothers and fathers.

We're supposed to be role model.

Teachers, and counselors, we're supposed to be a role model.

So let's talk about, what can we do?

Let's start taking up interest in our children.

Let's start with some commitment on our behalf.

RALLY MEMBER 8: You got a cocaine problem.

[interposing voices]

Cocaine is what kills with us.

And that's for real.

Ain't no drug like cocaine.

All your programs, but your morals is not right.

You can sit here and talk from Doomsday.

Alcohol kills, too.

But cocaine kills a lot more.

[interposing voices]

Give me something that gonna help them morally.

Not hot dogs, and cakes, and candies.

That's nothing for our future.

If your moral's not uplifting, you can't help us,

Reagan can't help us, the Pope in Rome can't help us,

and we can't help ourselves.

RALLY MEMBER 9: People with real good morals--

We should talk about things when all of us hears.

And so this is what it's all about.

We can't put the blame.

We've just got to stop putting the blame.

It's time to come for united.

We have seen what it's done to us being divided.

Divided we fall.

All the blood is running in the streets.

So now, we must come together.

We have to come together.

This is the first visible movement in the United States

since the Civil Rights movement.

And it's been 20 years since people have moved

to the forefront and took a stand against what's

going on wrong in this country.

SoSad has laid the foundation for that movement.

Our children that have died on the streets of Detroit

laid the foundation for that movement.

I lost my 16-year-old son.

Vera lost her 16-year-old daughter.

The past two years, we lost 77 children ages 16 and younger,

shot to death in the city of Detroit.

That is not to mention the children

that committed suicide.

Or children that died by other means.

77 children in this city were shot to death.

[MUSIC PLAYING - PRINCE VINCE AND THE HIP HOP FORCE]

(SINGING) Too many niggers got triggers,

too many triggers got guns, too many triggers

held fingers and hands.

Too many super niggers didn't bother to understand,

too many kids was ruling 51s.

So the fingers pull triggers, and mothers just lost sons.

And daughters cried, or funeral pyres, poets

read poems then they ran for their lives.

They blamed the whole game on rap music and slang,

then they sat on their behinds, didn't do a damn thing.

They'll talk about the days when they marched with King,

told little kids from the back of limousines,

now we're doing what we can, but you don't stop trying,

the kid walked home and brutally died, brutally died.

Bru, bru, brutally died, brutally died.

Dag Broffa brutally died, brutally died.

Melody Rucker brutally died, brutally died.

Fisher Wills brutally died, bru, brutally died.

Cran Scott brutally died, brutally died.

Chester Jackson brutally died, brutally died.

180 kids brutally died, bru, bru,

brutally died, brutally died, brutally died, brutally died.

Bru bru, brutally died, brutally died,

brutally died, brutally died.

It's so sad when they die so young in a city

where no one cares.

There are too many funerals and too many guns.

Too many swords, and not enough ploughshares.

I've never held ill feelings to anyone

till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

Till I found my child was dead.

[police sirens]