Don’t Look Away

(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.