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Malcolm, I heard the news todayThey lynched your grandson in the pressThey said he took your widow's dressAnd lit a fireI did not believe what they saidIt could not be what they had saidThey said your daughter was depressedAnd raised a hoodlumWhat does a blue-eyed devilCare of the situation?Tears are no justificationBut they flow nonethelessAnd I'm sorry, Malcolm XSo sorry, Malcolm XI'm sorry for the way she diedAs if her life weren't hard enoughI hope that she's there with you nowAnd somehow smilingBut can you look down and not weepFor those black souls you loved so deep?Could things have turned out differentlyIf you'd been with them?What does a blue-eyed devilSongtexteCare of the situation?Tears are no justificationBut they flow nonethelessAnd I'm sorry, Malcolm XSo sorry, Malcolm XCream in your black coffee wasThe only form of integration you approvedYou believed that hearts that bleedWere somehow worse than KlansmenBut I know you came to change your mindPerhaps the rainbow should uniteThe Prince and King would have agreed andThat's why they killed youMaybe that's why I sometimes weepThe rest of us are so damn weakWe need the folks like you to leadTo wake our sleepingBut who is brave enough these daysTo take a bullet in the chestWe've all been warned too many timesRighteousness means deathAnd I'm sorry, Malcolm XSo sorry for our mess Aus Songtexte Mania