Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Derek Webb
Letter From Birmingham Jail
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
—
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
As the events of the Birmingham Campaign intensified on the city's streets, Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in Birmingham in response to local...
You wanna rock with the cops on the front line
You wanna kick it with the people in the back
You strike a match and you throw back a cocktail
There’s got to be a better way
It is harder to stay
It is harder to wait
To out-love, to out-suffer them
I wanna dream up a world i wanna live in
I wanna spray it on a building downtown
I wanna protest with patience and a paycheck
‘cause there’s got to be a better way
It is harder to stay
It is harder to wait
To out-love, to out-suffer them
Don’t wanna wait
No drugs or sleep
I wanna hold your hand grenade
God bless these bombs
Baptize this rope
Lie with us in the bed we’ve made
It is harder to stay
It is harder to wait
To out-love, to out-suffer them
Derek Webb released Cobra Con on Tue Sep 01 2009.