Strange fruit drying/dying/lying in the sand of Arizona...
Where is Nina Simone when you need her? Arizona needs her.
When four young black girls were killed in the Baptist church bombing in 1963, the story goes Nina Simone locked herself in her room and said she wanted to build her own gun.
In her book I Got Thunder – Lashonda Barnett who interviewed Simone, says her then husband dissuaded Simone telling her “Music is your weapon.” Four hours later she emerged with Mississippi Goddamn.
Can’t you see it
Can’t you feel it
It’s all in the air
Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don’t belong here
I don’t belong there
I’ve even stopped believing in prayer
Arizona Goddam.
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