Numb (feat. Letetra Wideman)

NUMB

This world is getting to me

A man shot seven times in the back

Another day fades into black

This world is getting to me

Where’s the change that needs to come?

Where’s the creed that we are one?

I ain’t crying

I am numb

“I stopped crying years ago, I am numb”

This world is getting to me

A man shot seven times in the back

Another racist force attack

This world is getting to me

How much longer will this last?

Time to put it in the past

I ain’t crying

I am numb

Almost fifty years now Dr King had a dream

But his racial justice still ain’t there to be seen

Violence and hatred feeding rage and despair

Ain’t no humanity there

This world is getting to me

"I am my brother’s keeper.

And when you say the name Jacob Blake,

make sure you say father,

make sure you say cousin,

make sure you say son,

make sure you say uncle,

but most importantly make sure you say human.

Human life.

Let it marinate in your mind.

A human life.

Just like every single one of y'all.

We're human, and his life matters.”

I ain’t crying

I am numb

“So many people have reached out to me,

telling me they're sorry

that this happened to my family.

Well, don't be sorry

because this has been happening to my family

for a long time.”

How can it be a black man living in his own land

is treated like exile well don’t understand

The staggering brutality in every state

Why this blindness and hate?

“This is nothing new.

I'm not sad, I'm not sorry, I'm angry.

And I'm tired.”

We need equality

“I haven't cried one time.

I stopped crying years ago.

I am numb.

I am numb.”

This world is getting to me

“I have been watching police murder people

that look like me for years.

I'm also a Black history minor,

so not only have I been watching it in the 30 years

that I've been on this planet,

but I've been 'watching' it for years

before we were even alive.

I'm not sad.

I don't want your pity.

I want change.

I am numb.”

“I'm not sad.

I don't want your pity.

I want change!"

 

Songlyrics: Pieter Embrechts

Speech: Letetra Wideman