BLUE RAGE-BLACK REDEMPTION

(Music: Gutjahr/Thorwarth/Zissel)
(Lyrics: Bulgaropulos/Geremia)

Once there lived in times of crime
A young man full of ignorance
Formed the Crips gang, spreading madness
Addiction, drugs, guns, violence

Like sleepwalking
On brutal ways
In southern central
L.A., CA

Chorus
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie
Death Row, hell behind the bars – got 25 to life
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie – no governor-clemency “Blue Rage, Black Redemption” thoughts

Wrote to youth peace protocols
That circumstance is no excuse
Warnings of a vicious lifestyle
Helping street gangs build a truce

A Nominee
For Nobel Prize
Injection lethal
And so, peace died

Chorus
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie
Death Row, hell behind the bars – got 25 to life
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie – no governor-clemency “Blue Rage, Black Redemption” thoughts

Like sleepwalking
On brutal ways
In southern central
L.A., CA

Chorus
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie
Death Row, hell behind the bars – got 25 to life
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie – no governor-clemency “Blue Rage, Black Redemption” thoughts

Chorus
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie
Death Row, hell behind the bars – got 25 to life
Prison shaped the mind of Tookie – no governor-clemency “Blue Rage, Black Redemption” thoughts