Marvin Used To Say - Raheem DeVaughn, The Colleagues

Police killing my brother in the street

No justice no peace

Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh

They said the world is changing

It ain’t for the better

Wonder if God left us hanging

Feels like he ain’t been providing no shelter

For this stormy weather we been facing

(Oh what’s going on)

We still ain’t got answers

Since Marvin asked a long time ago

Oh, what’s going on

I wanna know

Who de we run to?

And who do we call on?

What’s the use of still saying prayers

If deaf ears, they fall on

(You want to believe)

Wanna believe there’s a btter place

When it’s all said and don

The key is to keep the faith

For our race to be won

Raise me up a song

What’s going on, oh oh

(Oh, what’s going on?)

I remember

Marvin used to say

Somebody tell me

(Oh, what’s going on?)

I gotta know

Marvin used to say, Marvin used to say

(Oh, what’s going on?)

Tell me, tell me

(Oh, what’s going on?)

What’s going on?

What’s going on?

Seems like from birth I was cursed

With a guilty complexion

Can’t even walk the street in peace

Without the fear of been arrested

Now the community is divided

We dying by thousands from this virus

Cities in shamble, riots

Like Marvin used to say

What’s going on?

What’s going on?

Who de we run to?

And who do we call on?

What’s the use of still saying prayers

If deaf ears, they fall on

(You want to believe)

Wanna believe there’s a better place

When it’s all said and done

The key is to keep the faith

For our race to be won

Raise me up a song

What’s going on, oh oh

(Oh, what’s going on?)

Marvin used to say

Somebody tell me

(Oh, what’s going on?)

I got, I gotta know, oh

Mama played the song as a young boy

(Oh, what’s going on?)

Marvin used to say

Tell me, tell me

What’s going on?

(Oh, what’s going on?)

What’s going on?

What’s going on?

Marvin used to also say

Save the children, save the babies

So a message to the youth

The future lies in your hands

To the fight of injustice is one

We are one

To Tamika Mallory and Rashad Robinson

Keep pushing on (Keep pushing on)

Jumaane Williams, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi

We are not alone

Angela Rye (My sister), Patrisse Cullors, my brother Mysonne (My brother)

Keep fighting, oh ooh oh

Keep marching on (Marching on)

Brother Ben, keep teaching on

Rizza Islam