Pohlease Lyrics - Kamau

Dum, dum dum, dum 

As a Black person in America, 

When you see the police 

Say a little prayer to the Shepherd, 

Who let Wolves guard the Sheep? 

(Chorus) 

Who Police the Police? 

(Who Police the Police) 

Who Police the Police? 

(Who Police the Police) 

Who Police the Police? 

(Who Police them) 

When they get out of line ­ 

X2(Post Chorus) 

Are they gon' have to kill somebody? 

To get this revolutionary started 

YEBP 

It's been a while since the KluKlux 

Looked like the KluKlux 

You ain't gotta glue clues 

As common as glucose 

To glimpse them in a blue cloak 

Welcome to America 

The new coke 

A cola coated with a bit a codeine 

Cope with or decode it 

Children of the corner 

Get no dosage from the club 

Club full of killers 

Killing Cubs just because 

Color is a credible cause 

To make the bird caw 

Incredible cost to a mother 

To get that cursed call 

That's a curb stomp to her 

Confidence 

That's as common as condiments 

That's the kind of incompetence 

That'll conjure a conflict 

We're at war with security 

After we built the company 

Yebo 

(Chorus) 

(Post Chorus) 

(Verse#2) 

Welcome to the guantlet 

We're in the middle of 

Criminals and Convicts 

What's a convict 

To a criminal, sanctioned by the law, paid by the General? 

Or even worse, who do you call 

When you're food for the law 

When you're Garner and the concrete 

Is intruding your jaw 

How you shoot for the stars 

When peace officers are shooting at yours 

How many more Malcolm Littles 

Shot or Behind bars 

While the Malcolm in the Middle's 

Get a shot at the bar 

Part of the reason why we throw so many shots at the bar Pardon my reaching, when you shot me 

I was getting my wallet 

Pardon my screaming 

But you take too many shots in the dark 

Pardon my screaming but 

Talking over your Glock is impossible 

This is how it sounds when your skin starts biting you This is how it feels when your skin stars eating you 

This is a problem 

Not a black problem 

This is a problem 

Not a black problem 

This is a problem 

Not a black problem 

(Chorus) 

(Post Chorus) 

(Outro) 

They don't have to kill 

They don't, They don't have to kill 

They don't have to kill 

They don't, They don't have to kill 

They don't have to kill 

Eric Garner 

Dontre Hamilton 

John Crawford III 

Michael Brown Jr 

Ezell Ford 

Dante Parker 

Tanesha Anderson 

Akai Gurley 

Bettie Jones 

(Reading of countless names of lives stolen by Police Brutality) 

When you see the police 

Say a little prayer to the Shepherd, Who let Wolves guard the Sheep 

Emmett Till 

YEBO