Why? Lyrics - Nina Simone

What? gonna happen now? In all of our cities? 

My people are rising; they? e living in lies. 

Even if they have to die 

Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is 

Even at that one moment that ya know what life is 

If you have to die, it? all right 

Cause you know what life is 

You know what freedom is for one moment of your life 

But he had seen the mountaintop 

And he knew he could not stop 

Always living with the threat of death ahead 

Folks you? better stop and think 

Everybody knows we? e on the brink 

What will happen, now that the King is dead? 

We can all shed tears; it won? change a thing 

Teach your people: Will they ever learn? 

Must you always kill with burn and burn with guns 

And kill with guns and burn - don? you know how we gotta react? 

But he had seen the mountaintop 

And he knew he could not stop 

Always living with the threat of death ahead 

Folks you? better stop and think 

Everybody knows we? e on the brink 

What will happen, now that the King of love is dead? 

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