Blackmanburning - Ballad

We’ve been subjected to pain for so long

They hate our color ‘cuz it’s not their own

Too many don’t make it alive

We’re just trying to survive

We’re just trying to live as one

We keep trying, they expect us to right their wrongs

So wrong

Said, we’re only fighting for peace man

With this these trigger happy policemen

As another one dies

While we cry

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

Don’t want to see my sisters dying

Don’t want to hear that baby crying

For so long we have wept and bled

Carried by the prayers that were said

That we could be all we were meant to be

In the face of devastation and tragedy

Remember your worth, remember your pride

Remember your strength, remember your ties

Tireless nights, we continue to fight

Bury your burdens as we take flight

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man may be burning

But the black soul

The black soul

The black soul

Lives on

Don’t you, you forget their names

Don’t you, you forget their names (lives on)

Don’t you, you forget their names

Don’t you, you forget their names (lives on)

Don’t you, you forget their names

Don’t you, you forget their names (lives on)

Don’t you, you forget their names

Don’t you, you forget their names (lives on)

As another one dies

While we cry

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

The black man burning tonight

Black man burning

Black man burning

Black man burning

Black man