(Emotional Rap · Spoken-melodic · 90 BPM)
Verse 1
What a privilege to look away
What a privilege to change the frame
Scroll past death like it’s just a headline
Tell yourself everything’s fine
What a privilege to pretend
Life just keeps on going again
Like sirens don’t echo at night
Like bodies don’t fall in the light
On a city street in Minnesota
They took a man who saved lives
Alex — ICU nurse
Hands built for healing, not goodbye
Pre-Chorus
Say his name soft
They disappear
Say it loud
They get afraid
Chorus
Don’t look away
Don’t turn the channel
Don’t call this normal
Don’t say it’s handled
They killed him on a city street
They killed her too — Renée Good
Two American citizens
Don’t look away
Verse 2
They call it procedure, call it a threat
But blood don’t speak government text
A badge don’t erase a scream
A policy don’t bury the dead
How many names till the silence cracks
How many truths till the lies collapse
If it’s always “not your side”
Then whose life is ever safe?
Bridge (spoken, stripped beat)
Privilege is distance
Privilege is denial
Privilege is believing
It’ll never be you or your child
Final Chorus
Don’t look away
Hold your eyes open
This is happening here
Not history — this moment
On city streets
To citizens
To people with names
Outro
What a privilege to look away.