"Hail Mary, Jesus and Joseph/ The great American flag is wrapped in drag with explosives/ Compulsive disorder, sons and daughters/ Barricaded blocks and borders/ Look what you/ taught us!/ It's murder on my street, your street, back streets/ Wall Street, corporate offices/Banks, employees, and bosses with/ Homicidal thoughts Donald Trump's in office/ We lost Barack and promised to never doubt him again/ But is America honest, or do we bask in sin?/ Pass the gin, I mix it with American blood/vThen bash him in, you Crippin' or you married to Blood?/ I'll ask again-oops, accident/ It's nasty when you set us up/ Then roll the dice, then bet us up/ You overnight the big rifles, then tell Fox to be scared of us/ Gang members or terrorists, et cetera, et cetera/ America's reflections of me, that's what a mirror does," Lamar raps. "This is America (Skrrt, skrrt, woo)/ Don't catch you slippin' now (Ayy)/ Look how I'm livin' now/ Police be trippin' now (Woo)/ Yeah, this is America (Woo, ayy)/ Guns in my area (Word, my area)/ I got the strap (Ayy, ayy)/ I gotta carry 'em/ Yeah, yeah, I'ma go into this (Ugh)/ Yeah, yeah, this is guerilla (Woo)/ Yeah, yeah, I'ma go get the bag/ Yeah, yeah, or I'ma get the pad/ Yeah, yeah, I'm so cold like, yeah (Yeah)/ I'm so dope like, yeah (Woo)/ We gon' blow like, yeah (Straight up, uh)," Glover raps.Ī poignant look at the way life differs between races and individuals, Lamar raps about the disparities caused by systematic racism as he tells the story of a friend who lost his child to street violence. The music video was particularly gut-wrenching as images of a man taking a bullet to the back of the head appear on the screen while Glover raps lyrics about how "we just wanna party." Under his musical performance moniker Childish Gambino, Donald Glover's 2018 hit was a vivid glimpse of the chaos and carnage that has ensued across America over the past few years and how Americans have essentially just gotten used to all of it. After she remained silent during most of the 2016 campaign season, the 30-year-old started being more vocal about her political views in 2018 when she gave her first endorsement to Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives-both of whom are Democrats. Swift's calls for action have gotten significantly louder since Trump took office. "If I did the things you do / I couldn't sleep, seriously / Do you even know the truth? / We're in a state of crisis, people are dyin' / While you line your pockets deep / Commander in Chief, how does it feel to still / Be able to breathe?" Lovato sings in the song. And the message behind her words were capitalized even more in the song's music video, which featured people from all walks of life coming together. When Lovato first performed the song at the 2020 Billboard Awards on October 14, she sat at the piano while the word "VOTE" appeared in massive letters on a black screen behind her-NBC edited the visual out during the telecast, but Lovato's call for change and urging of people to hit the polls on election day was heard loud and clear in the lyrics of the song. Demi Lovato performs "Commander in Chief" onstage at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, broadcast on October 14, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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