Thee Sacred Souls - Give Us Justice

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Thee Sacred Souls - "Give Us Justice," a 2020 single on Daptone Records.

With today's Song of the Day, San Diego-based trio Thee Sacred Souls reflect on the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, singing "there'll be no peace / until there's justice." The Grammy-nominated band The Black Pumas declared it "the song that will define 2020 for me" in Rolling Stone magazine.

"The song kind of wrote and spoke for itself," vocalist Josh Lane told KPBS. "I might not have been someone who was murdered... but in a certain situation I could've been any other people who lost their lives to police brutality or brutality in general."

As the band states on their Bandcamp page, "proceeds from this single will go to promoting the freedoms, rights, and wellbeing of black people, spread across various organizations which they will continue to research over time, starting with The Movement for Black Lives."

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0:00.0	It could have been me, it could have been me
0:09.0	Lying on the concrete there's a knee against my neck
0:17.0	Meeting for my breath, meeting for my breath
0:24.0	There'll be no peace, there'll be no peace
0:28.0	There'll be no peace, untoless justice
0:35.0	Untill there's justice, there'll be no peace
0:42.0	There'll be no peace, there'll be no peace
0:48.0	Untill there's justice, untill there's justice
0:57.0	It could have been me, it could have been me
1:05.0	Running, just running, there's a shotgun in my face
1:13.0	Fighting just to live, the shotgun takes my place
1:20.0	There'll be no peace, there'll be no peace
1:24.0	There'll be no peace, until there's justice
1:32.0	Until there's justice, there'll be no peace
1:40.0	There'll be no peace, until there's justice
1:48.0	Until there's justice, there'll be no peace
1:56.0	Oh, there'll be no peace, until there's justice
2:03.0	Oh, give us justice, there'll be no peace
2:11.0	There'll be no peace, until there's justice
2:19.0	Until there's justice
2:23.0	Oh, there'll be no peace
2:27.0	Oh, no, no, no, no, no, until there's justice
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