Room 306 - Mickey Factz, Candace Ciara, Tony Williams

I know you’re asking today

How long will it take

Somebody’s asking how long will prejudice blind the visions of men

I come to say to you this afternoon

However difficult the moment

However frustrating the hour

It will not be long

Because the truth of the Earth will rise again

How long not long

Because no lie can live forever (that's right)

How long not long

Left in the desert

Without a water can

He seen the baby just like a sonogram

Martin ran to get us on the plan

Reached the mountain top to stand and saw the promise land

April 4 the murder night

Marching for the workers strike down in Tennessee where the bourbon ride

Just turned 39 he was learning life

Stayed at the Lorraine because he heard its nice

Brother Ralph was shaving Reverend Cals was pacing

Its 4 o’clock Billy’s house was waiting

Supposed to have dinner at 6 what happened

Jesse Jackson band arrived to come practice

Madness the three preachers in the room laughing

Masking the prophetic speech Martin had landed

5:45 on the balcony

Jesse wanted to introduce his man like the cavalry

Martin said come up through the stairs on the side of me

Leaning over the rail talking to Rembrandt in his dress pants

Till Mr. King’s head with a dum dum bullet then

Everything switched everything’s missed

Joy and happiness or the revelling shifts to a mezzanine pitch

Eerily what appears to be a lone shooter saying I’m innocent

It’s conspiracy

You know we are kings and queens (mistaken)

Mistaken for the enemy

You know we will overcome (you know we will overcome)

We won’t stop (we won’t stop)

We won’t stop till the race is won

There was a shooter planted in Bessy Brewers

That was the boarding house for the petty looters

Remington rifle they said was not involved

6:01 MLK was shot in the jaw

Bullet Knocked him back he wasn’t on the railing

Feet hung off of the balcony they were flailing

Knot on his tie was upside down

Cigarette was still in his hand

The gun got found

He died with his eyes open

Saw the promise land in heaven

Pronounced dead five minutes after seven

Man with a PhD fighting for rights of the people till he d i e

They were garbage workers

Think about it for a second

He gave up his life just so we could be respected

Well we know this

The dream still lives on

From Room 306 (room 306, room 306)

Room 306

I’m tired of coming back to 306

My Mama told me about a dream

Ever since I’ve been a king

And if you ever find yourself in a fix

Up to the balcony at 306

Room 306