Birmingham
Blood Orange & Ian Isiah & Kelsey Lu * Track #5 On Angel’s Pulse
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- #1I Wanna C U
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- #2Something to Do
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- #3Dark & Handsome
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- #4Benzo
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- #5Birmingham
Blood Orange & Ian Isiah & Kelsey Lu
- #6Good for You
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- #7Baby Florence (Figure)
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- #8Gold Teeth
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- #9Berlin
Blood Orange & Ian Isiah & Porches
- #10Tuesday Feeling (Choose to Stay)
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- #11Seven Hours Part 1
Blood Orange & BennY RevivaL
- #12Take It Back
Blood Orange & Justine Skye & Arca & Joba
- #13Happiness (Will Fade)
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- #14Today
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Birmingham by Blood Orange (Ft. Ian Isiah & Kelsey Lu)
Release Date
Produced by
Devonté HynesWrited by
Dudley Randall & Devonté HynesAbout
This song is a tribute to the four children who were killed in the white supremacist 16th St. Baptist Church Bombing that happened on Sunday, September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. The lyrics are taken directly from the poem by Randall Dunn called “The Ballad of Birmingham.”
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Birmingham Lyrics
[Verse: Kelsey Lu]
For when she heard the explosion
Her eyes grew wet and wild
She raced through the streets of Birmingham
Calling for her child
She clawed through the bits of glass and brick
Then lifted out a shoe
Oh, here's the shoe my baby wore
But baby, where are you?
[Refrain: Ian Isiah]
My baby, yeah
My baby, where are you?
Oh, oh, oh
My baby, oh, oh-woah
My baby, my baby, where are you? Oh
My baby
Oh, my baby
My baby, my baby, where are you?
Birmingham Q&A
Who wrote Birmingham's ?
Birmingham was written by Dudley Randall & Devonté Hynes.
Who produced Birmingham's ?
Birmingham was produced by Devonté Hynes.
When did Blood Orange release Birmingham?
Blood Orange released Birmingham on Fri Jul 12 2019.
What did Blood Orange say about "Birmingham"?
I wanted this to feel like an abrupt new chapter. I had it cut into the end of ‘Benzo’ so it felt like kicking the door down. The lyrics are actually a poem called ‘Ballad of Birmingham’ by Dudley Randall, about the church bombing in the early 1960s. I had heard renditions of music set to those word...