Only If

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Only if we truly knew what happened to you on that cold night of February 26, 2012

We those skittles fell out of your frigid hands

And how that hoodie made you seem harmful to our society

Many parent across the country cried for you, not only because it could’ve been theirs

It’s the fact that it shows what I nation has become

 

 

Only if we knew what was going through his head

How much harm did you cause for him to want you dead?

2:24 Dispatcher: Are you following him?

2:25 Zimmerman: Yea

2:26 Dispatcher: okay. We don’t need you to do that

But that didn’t stop anything

So there you are lying flat

 

July 13, 2013 “In the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit in and for Seminole County, Florida. State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman verdict: We the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty”

Heads all over the nation hung low

Only if we clearly understood the reason

 

“The land of the free and the home of the brave”

I guess brave enough to put you in the grave and walk away free

Young Tray we will rise for you

Reach for the stars and do everything you strived to do

We will yell self-defense to the highest altitude

Simply because they’ll let someone walk away after murdering you

Only if we really knew what happened to you, ONLY IF

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