Mr. Governor (feat. Akie Bermiss) - Soul Khan

They’re killing me tonight

They are killing me tonight

They are murdering, murdering

Murdering me tonight

Soul Khan:

We went from voltage to dosage like that’s humane

As the hourglass passes its last few grains

We still add new names to death row that echo

From holman to folsom, how can you claim

That we’re staying on the high ground

When we take another life out

Without so much as raising up an eyebrow

Well maybe some of us

But meanwhile the rest of y’all chill as we restrain a mother’s child down

Strapped but disarmed, they’re jabbing his arms with catheters

His family’s hearts are cracking apart as activists

Protest with candles and signs hoping this man will survive

Unless the capital calls for the miraculous

This ain’t the kind of thing you need to stop and ask oprah

It’s power that we can’t allow atop a man’s shoulder

It’s about time I cried out and brought my hands closer

Remembering the final words of shaka sankofa

Hook:(Akie Bermiss)

They’re killing me tonight

They are killing me tonight

They are murdering, murdering

Murdering me tonight

Mr. governor, we’ve discovered a

Body of evidence don’t cover us

In that black mask and make us

Make us turn out the light

Soul Khan

Now even if they’re guilty beyond reasonable doubt

It ain’t like killing em’ll ever even this shit out

If you’d fallen where they’ve fallen, you might see another route

Instead of something more than murder when that needle’s coming out

We’ve seen too many moments that are worth second looks

The first breath he took, the first step he took

A grave is a grave and a death is a death

But y’all forget about it as soon they’re first getting booked

See, i’m just stating the past ethics and same words

From the family of matt shephard and james byrd

I can’t imagine that sad sentence that they heard

They showed a kinda mercy to killers they ain’t

Earned

Wrongly accused or proven and shut cases

You wanna execute ‘em, remove me from your playlist

Their your neighbors, lord save us

Nah, fuck it you ain’t even try to save troy davis

Hook:

They’re killing me tonight

They are killing me tonight

They are murdering, murdering

Murdering me tonight

Mr. governor, we’ve discovered a

Body of evidence don’t cover us

In that black mask and make us

Make us turn out the light