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Say Something, Do Something

by Jazz Mafia + Various Artists

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The only way to get through Is to go through That’s all we can do Cause there’s no turning back Gotta stay on track Til we get to the light At the end of the tunnel (Ay) I see the end of the struggle (Ay) We’re gonna be alright I see the light I see the light Viveca: Head to the sky Eyes on the prize I’ve gotta shine - hey Dreams over fears Let your worries all disappear Lilan: Cuz we’re all that we got If we lean on each other Then we got a shot, ay We gotta work it out If we want change to come Tym: When it’s over we gon’ kick back Laugh, have a kiki Look at the scars As a sign of the vic’try Keith: The whole world’s got some problems What we gonna do to solve ‘em Joe: Sometimes we don't try, thinking we'll lose But you fail couldn't take a chance, Boo Hoo Natalie: We’re living just one day at a time To keep up a higher vibe [CHORUS] Ad libs (Viveca) Yvette: In the darkest night You struggle so hard to fight Dare to open your eyes Other side is paradise Natty: The light from the horizon of our brand new day Is coming our way Sarah: They tried to bury us (Rise up) They didn’t know that we were seeds Erin: Darkness cannot drive out darkness Only light can Hatred cannot drive out hate Only love can Olivia: Worked our way up from the past Sho do know our strength gon’ last Trance: We’ve been through so much drama From slave trauma to Obama But like our dads and mamas We’ll keep marchin’ til nirvana [CHORUS] Ad libs (Keith & Yvette) Chris Burger (CB) Be sure to get ur ticket Your 2 kids, Ur padnah and ur white picket Good livin’ when the vision is specific Divine state of mind And a fine place to visit Michael Blake We’ve come so far yet still Looks so far away But each and everyday We keep it pushing To make change So Don’t be muzzled, befuddled, disrupted By distractions - Maintain The Mission Your motive and passion Mani Draper Objects appear closer - Goapele Get to the cake I’ll never need a chauffeur Self-drive to 10 and 2 Please don’t make me expose ya Made slaves out of metaphors We built another building When they bolt the door Tommy Soulati It makes you wonder why we be getting so meta for Deep Love for the people, hope at the core Whatever we can imagine It’s really up to us to manifest and manage Then repair the damage damnit Dan Wolf Keep lapping racists cause you know this is a marathon But short term memory’s a ghost like puffing marijuan Testing mental health Rest and use your breath Essential right mind It’s dark right before you let your light shine Seneca Panthers programs Local slow jams Parks and positives Sparks and politics Through all the struggles and decisions We can't understand No need for medals or no ribbons Just defeat the man Tommy Soulati There it go (what) It’s the light at the end of the tunnel (Oh) Choose to knuckle through don’t buckle Just follow the light Just follow the light Meet me on the other side There it go (what) It’s the light at the end of the tunnel (Oh) Choose to knuckle through don’t buckle (yeah) Just follow the light See ya on the other side Solas: It guess it takes deadly disease from overseas And stolen breath from a knee on neck (black death) Can’t be here no more Got my bags packed full with passport sittin’ right the door (the door) AJ: Got the bigger picture on my mind And I know I’ll get through it this time Kyle: Clear vision is a choice The channel is your voice Rich: Why do we cry about those who lost their way If you can see the light Maybe you can help them find their way Yvette: Set your hands in mine You won’t walk alone Our hearts stay strong Eyes ahead And carry on [CHORUS] Ad libs (Rich & Yvette) Soulati: CHIN UP - There’s goes the light, I see the light, Move towards the light At the end of the tunnel (Natty: Keep your chin up) CHIN UP - Look up ahead, Get out your head, Get through instead To the end of the struggle (Keith: Keep your head up) CHIN UP - There’s goes the light, I see the light, Move towards the light At the end of the tunnel (Natty: You gotta, gotta get out of your head) CHIN UP - Look up ahead, Get out your head, Get through instead To the end of the struggle (Keith: Hold your chin toward the sky) Amber: Get up [4x] Move up [4x] Look up [4x] Sólás: CHIN UP - We can't leave the country no way Borders closed like Sunday But watch me, I’m amazing CHIN UP - I’ll guess I’ll stay and teach these children And unpack with heads up, So tired but they blessin’ me Jefferson: CHIN UP - Keep your chin up (Ay) You are not alone Sarah & Trance: We’ll make it out of the rubble And be the good kind of trouble Keith & Tym: The only way to get through Is to go through Amber: So whatever it is - Get up Kyle: There goes it, there goes it, there goes the light Keith: And we are going to be alright Amber: Get up [4x] Move up [4x] Look up [4x] We can stand til the end of the struggle Viv: Go through
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O say can you see through the wildfire smoke and the haze can you still hear your brother say I can’t breathe Through the dawn’s early light a child wakes up in a cage Are you proud? Tears streaming down in broad stripes she looks up at bright stars and dreams of a better life Tear the ramparts down It’s twilight now And the rocket-launching, fully automatic, high capacity magazine How many rounds do you need to stand against tyranny? How many? O say does that star-spangled banner waver in a maelstrom of lies? Does it still fly? Does it still fly Fly over a land of compassion Home of immigrants and freed slaves O say Say it’s not too late to be who we said we’d be If you’re still brave Oh please say
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Do we love our Country? HELL YA Respect all People? HELL YA Do we believe in Science? HELL YA Fight hate with Love ALL DAY Not My President (3X) Rap (excerpt from "Burn" by Antique Naked Soul) The pretense Is we don’t want a home in fact we neglect the very joint we light up L’s in ride and die to protect. If they don’t see it in our eyes they’ll see it in our protests. If they don’t hear it in our words wont understand the process of progress. We need water shit Babylon is burning. There’s broken glass smoke and piss everywhere we’re turning. No regard no regret no respect no one learning. We’re armed with street knowledge watch your back we’re emerging. It’s clouds of pitch black smoke beginning to strangle. Oh say muthafuckas you see the stars mangled? Global warming is about to take its turn on the planet and dammit ain’t nobody even concerned. We seem too intent to holding on to what we’ve earned. Living in oblivion obviously we never learn. We could have it all y’all only if we had the nerve. Operation demolition around the curve. Better swerve. Bet it burns
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By Trance and The Doom Patrol Denigrated, still we make it Battle everyday to survive Daily struggle, workin double While so-called patriots turn a blind eye They don’t see us, but want to be us ’til they’re calling to report a crime They must know they’re running out of time Do you keep working When nobody understands Do you stop working When breaking you’s the only plan Is it all worth it You’re holding up your hands But you can Never surrender, never surrender On a mission - Hey On a mission Demolition - Tear down the wall ya’ll On a mission - Hey On a mission - Oh people Demolition - Fools about to fall now Fools about to fall (We’ll) Wait in line, won’t be denied Won’t give in to your suppression Though you swear that all is fair We don’t care We’re done with your deception Now the script you try to flip Like you’re the ones who need 2 be afraid While in the streets and on our knees You condemn us to an early grave Do you keep working When so many say we’ll fail Do you stop working When it seems its been to no avail Is it all worth it We’ve been through so much hell But we can Never surrender, never surrender CHORUS Liars - we’re coming for ya Cheaters - we’re coming for ya Oppressors - we’re coming for ya Power - we’re coming for ya Do you keep working Try to overcome Do you stop working When thinking people act so dumb Is it all worth it This pandemonium Never sur- Never sur- Never surrender CHORUS We’re coming for ya And we will rise
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We are amazed but not amused By all the things you say that you'll do Though much concerned but not involved With decisions that are made by you But we are sick and tired of hearing your song Tellin' how you are gonna change right from wrong 'Cause if you really want to hear our views You haven't done nothin' Ow It's not too cool to be ridiculed But you brought this upon yourself The world is tired of pacifier We want the truth and nothing else And we are sick and tired of hearing your song Tellin' how you are gonna change right from wrong 'Cause if you really want to hear our views You haven't done nothin' Jackson 5 join along with me say Do the work - hey hey hey Do the work - whoa whoa whoa Do the work - mm-mm-mm Do the work - naw naw naw Do the work - bum bum bum Do the work We would not care to wake up to the nightmare That's becomin' real life, mm But when misled who knows a person's mind Can turn as cold as ice, um-hmm Why do you keep on making us hear your song Tellin' us how you are changin' right from wrong 'Cause if you really want to hear our views You haven't done nothin'
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He told us that we'd win Just put our faith in him Cause he would never lie. Made America hateful again Made our republic die We fall divided by a coward his minions cruel the glass is shattered like the people who’s lives they rule half wise half fool Some thought he was gods gift they liked his style of grift And bought in to the con They kiss the ring This phony king And bow before the Don Filled every heart with rage put children in a cage and laughed as they cried The "greatest" words They're only words Until there's genocide And watch the masses as there buried in shallow graves The real virus stands before us and Trumps this plague Unwise all fool
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Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls gather ‘round! The circus is coming back to town! Pack a lunch. I have a feeling this is gonna be a long one… The wagon is almost here… Wheels wobbly, ready to fall off at any moment… and of course, as always… the clown is driving. Let me drop my two cents on this madness direct from the state of the panic bandanas and sanitizers won’t do nothing against this virus trying to wipe us off the planet, God damn it it’s mad contagious been plaguing us since the ages of earliest civilizations engrained in the brain amazingly hard to contain or erase it the infection causes hatred and blindness to the plight of darker people, man, it’s basic depleted human kindness is the basis of how we define a racist look at the pigs who walk like humans but their blood is cold as night air they hunt in packs, killers trained and strapped, they never fight fair strangle a man for nothing and give the camera that dead eye glare animals on hind legs like a circus in a nightmare except when you open your eyes Surprise! the clown is standing right there in the White House spewing lies out got the planet feeling quite scared a psychopathic ringmaster, orange skin and toupee but the danger’s in the groupies who’ll do whatever the fuckin dude say… who let the clown take the wheel? disasters coming faster, man, it’s getting real elect a clown, expect a circus the clown is the distraction, the action’s behind the curtains who let the clown be the driver it been the wild west, but now this shit is getting wilder elect a clown, expect a circus elect a clown, expect a circus Why’s the sound this clown makes when he opens up his gullet like a battle cry for bigots with automatics and mullets? Like strings to dangerous puppets the white supremacists love it policemen with grudges encouraged to murder us right in public. The rest of us hear his voice as the sound of the seven trumpets of revelation a cancer to human civilization a threat to more than the nation but people ran out of patience we got tired of waiting we set fire to the stations ain’t no fear, it’s just frustration cuz this younger generation are fighting for their lives, it ain’t up for negotiation they ain’t with discrimination or this racist administration so they’re ready for confrontation if it means total transformation. ‘Cause every year increases, more innocent people slain or in chains and so their deaths ain’t in vain, we keep saying their names blocking the lanes, shaking up things, blazing the flames until the powers that be recognize we ain’t playin no games! Crooked cops up to the top clown elected the people want change and respect and ain’t gonna request it. After so long with knees on our necks what you expected? It been like 400 years, 8 minutes and 46 seconds… who let the clown take the wheel? disasters coming faster, man, it’s getting real elect a clown, expect a circus the clown is the distraction, the action’s behind the curtains who let the clown be the driver it been the wild west, but now this shit is getting wilder elect a clown, expect a circus elect a clown, expect a circus
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Heard the thrumpin' And the hummin' Of the helicopter comin' Must be sumthin' Unbecomin’ My perception’s obstructed Last time I heard it Was the verdict That was blurted On the circuit When our justice was deserted And the city erupted To be honest I’m afraid of what lies around the bend Is it danger? Is it trouble again? I can’t take another breach of freedom against a friend My people, my kin Oh look at the babies on the front line (Oh) (Are we standing on the front lines) (On the front lines, yeah) Oh is this a sign of the times (Oh) (Are we gonna heed the sign) (Sign of the times, of the times) So many cases Different faces Where my race is Being chased We can’t eradicate the pace If the intention is powered If you’re a hero it don’t matter They won’t see you through the chatter But the melanin will shatter At the hands of a coward To be honest I’m afraid of what lies around the bend Is it anger? Or a riot again? I can’t take another plea of “he scared me” against my kin, my brother, will it end? CHORUS (Insert Mani Draper) You got a voice so use it Don’t be afraid to do it You want the change, pursue it (We no joke) (We woke folk) Don’t turn your head you saw it Don’t let the fear withdraw it C’mon embrace the raucous (We no joke) (We woke folk) They see ya stance is solid Determination you got it We bout it (We no joke, we woke folk) (We no joke, we woke folk) (We no joke, we woke folk) CHORUS (We no joke, we woke folk) 4x Keep Striving
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Hey kids ready to go to school and see your teacher die? It’s just so 45 don’t have to be the fall guy He’s stressed about the dwindling economy He’s taking it out on all the nations progeny Feeding your parents to Lady Rona Who’s gonna enjoy with some Corona What can I say I’m a hungry ass bitch Hypnotized his mind like a crazy ass witch Playing his strings so he’ll do my bidding Keeping his base always transmitting Filling the news with crazy mutations Rona and Trump rule the nation! Hey! Ho! Whapadido let's go back to school Rona, Trump and their mutt Devos molecules of misrule We’ll do whatever it takes to make our boss win in November We won’t give a fuck about the death toll till December Lady Rona loves the drama from the throne inside your body Ordaining you to take your time, finding that antibody Pro-test, o-ppress, Hol-i-day Inn You see, if you keep acting up, then Rona gonna win. “These kids can’t be on constant vacation Abused, hungry, in stagnation Online isn’t where a child’s minds aligned” “You’re right” say’s Rona “what a bind “Too late for you Trump set up the play Sending his team straight into the fray Opened the tattoo shops and bars Ignored the rules, refs and stars! While Rona makes that death toll soar Riding Trump like a fat ass boar Here’s how you make useful idiots fall Elect a blow-hard full of air like a beach ball!” Now Rona got you bitchasses in a checkmate A catch twenty-two, damned if you do or don’t political stalemate. Hey! Ho! Whapadido let's go back to school Lady Rona, Trump and their mutt Betsy molecules of misrule We’ll see how much more of this you can condone before you vote in November How bad you gonna let that death toll get by the time we get to December? YOYOYO Special shot out to all you trolls hiding behind your screens spouting hate Lady Rona is watching you at night as you masturbate Angry and lonely in your dismal basement chamber Posting from your faceless account with no content you ain’t nothing but a hater.
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This election, will be a game of misdirection mask or no mask Class is in session Canada gave 2k a month/ We get repression our presidents/ malevolent/ we can't wait to get a better one That old Meglaton/ stealing a paraplegics peloton, we now stand divided, when Obama had us trying pick an issue we got tissues ,an a dopamine hit we get no justice, but 65 rolls of TP We hit that panic button, Trump was golfing on TV, If money buys elections, what the fuck we voting for, but we have to Biden's not my guy/ but we have to, not as shitty as Trump and we know/ that's the sad truth, we all want the pie they give us crumbs we can try, Angela Davis said to vote she's seen many multiply it's the future four years/ it could be stuck on repeat, We pressing delete, hitting the streets, let's all speak, change a life in a week, we fight for the meek I write like I speak, unite all beings, like a night at the beach, we can't accept the status quote we take a step or a leap, change the system, go in deep, All are wolfs or a sheep, awake or asleep, Snakes in the grass, we make em retreat, the love will never die, why were singing for peace Scheming on a better country without death and disease, we are a family, we make this planet better for bees, all souls deserve love and to conquer their goals. Friends or ya foes, compose pros, exposin' your woes no need to reload, take it slow just go with the flow, Nobody planned for Pandemic So I'm letting you know this election could be the last stand hates last blow from Zimbabwe to Glasgow/ we need fair elections and that's so/ bringing you back like lasso flame still fly/ freedom still rung/ old and young heroes unsung// tracing where we come from..... Africa
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“As 2019 wound down I started conversations with many of my core collaborators about the upcoming election and the urgent need to take action. Artists have been at the core of so many of our nation's critical social movements and political crises. Our country is more divided now than at any time in recent history and we need to find alternative ways to reach the hearts and minds of the citizens of our country. People hear their government talking all the time but they listen and feel music. Good songs possess the magic to change people's emotions. With "Say Something, Do Something" we were directly inspired by artists like Stevie Wonder who've managed to take strong stances on socio-political issues while at the same time enclosing those sometimes hard to swallow messages in brilliant, catchy, inspiring songs.
-Adam Theis, Director, Jazz Mafia

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released October 30, 2020

Executive Producers: Tom Chavez & Adam Theis
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Jazz Mafia is a collective of adventurous musicians, composers and producers. Our music, media, and curated experiences fuse elements of joy, mystery, and wonder, intended to make you move and make you think.

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