WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?            What would our leaders of old say? When they see the news today.

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?             The activists… the artists… the writers…

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?             When they look at us and see our pain

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?              What would they say? 

What would they say? If they were here today

What would they say? What would they say if they could feel our pain?

What would they say? If they were here today

What would they say? What would Malcolm say? What would Martin say?

What would they say? If they could see our pain

What would they say? What would Maya say? What would Nina say? 

What would they say? If they were here today

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY? 

What would they say as they could see the death toll rise?

What would they say if we choose to fight?

Would Maya Angelou have a poem to utter

To help us rise up from this dark painful gutter

What kind of stories would James Baldwin write

And what speech could Martin Luther King preach to shed some Light

Would Lorraine Hansberry write a new play

That deals with all the heartache that we’re going through today

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?  If they were here today

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY? Oh…If they could feel our pain

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY? I want to know if they were here today 

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?  I want to know, I want to know, I want to know

What would they say? To the breaking news we see

What would they say?  What would they say if we choose to bend the knee

What would they say? Not even Richard Pryor would dare to crack a joke

What would they say? When he sees a man who is bound, cuffed and choked.

What would they say? If they were here today

WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?