Black Dahlia Smiled

[Verse 1: Curly Castro]
[?] shoot the hottest gun now tell me what would you do
Would you stand and fight right by his side like Africas of [?]
Now that was Dahlia to the bone, a spear into a Zulu
She would load the guns and raise the seas that [?] all red like Sun Tzu
She stood like Erica Huggins they day he took out her husband
The [?] the twenty-one tribes, she spitting cuts out the [?]
[?]
And when it came to a people she wasn’t jiving or [?]
Of Betty Shabazz blood and Nina Simone
Would scream into the heavens, til the King was finally sprung
The cops got him on the slick of prison of politics
They said that he resisted, but they were just full of shit
They called him a communist, that’s better than three-fifths
She school her kids the ten points, the better to resist
She plots on Black August, to break out her phoenix
Scheming in a old bunker was no stifling edict

[Chorus: Lauren Kelly Benson]
Bum Bum bi-dum, baa-bum
Bum Bum bi-dum, baa-bum
I want to die young
I want to die young

[Verse 2: Curly Castro]
[?] the flag and scream your name, Nikki G is gangster
With the blueprints of Assata [?] ain’t no stranger
Her parable of talents was immaculate as butler
Live life like Angie Davis, you’s a bad motha
Now her man was treated Bobby Seale [?] will make you suffer
In the courtroom he was beaten, gagged, and chained in front of loved ones
And we all [?] was solemn when the judge calls out for order
But we channelled Toni Morrison and Dahlia’s eyes grew colder
Silhouette of a [?] caught when frenzied the crazy
She like Oswetta King in the middle of melee
Was no bells of bell hooks, Sonia Sanchez the hand grenade
They chumped up mega charges, Dahlia took the stand un-afraid
Swear to tell the truth, so Sojourner her eyes ablaze
Words were armed with Maya Angelou lift up off the page
Jury saw the hand grenade, the revolution grip
Power to the people, Dahlia smiled and then she pulled the pin

[Chorus: Lauren Kelly Benson]
Bum Bum bi-dum, baa-bum
Bum Bum bi-dum, baa-bum
I want to die young
I want to die young