Esperanza Spalding - Vague Suspicions

On the neon news they won’t be talking bout his life

Flowers still unfolding when he had to fly

Toward, toward God

May this war end and Insha’Allah, he knelt to pray

When a dusty troop misjudged and blew him away

Strangers, same God

They are faceless numbers in the headlines we’ve all read

Wrong strike leaves but teen civilians dead

Hold up that (?) My God

Maybe our heart is seized with passing pity for the dead

And vague suspicions creep into your head

(?) have won/of war and what he’s gone for

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