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Call It What It Is
Ben Harper

They shot him in the back

Now it's a crime to be black

So don't act surprised

When it gets vandalized

There's good cops

Bad cops

White cops

Black cops

Trayvon Martin

Ezell Ford

Michael Brown

And so many more

Government, policing, hard times

Oppression, racism, fear, suffering

Ain't easy

Gun control

Mind control

Self-control

We've dug ourselves a hole

Call it what it is

Murder


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  (I believe I'll) Dust my broom   (I Believe I'll) Dust My Broom   (The Beatles) Strawberry Fields Forever   11th Commandment   A House Is A Home   Ain't Too Proud To Beg   Ain't Too Proud To Beg   All Along The Watchtower   All That Has Grown   All That Matters Now   Alone   Alone [live*]   Altar of Love   Amen Omen   Angel From Montgomery   Another Lonely Day   Ashes   Beautiful Boy   Beloved One   Beloved One [Live][*]   Ben Harper / Burn One Down   Ben Harper / Forever   Ben Harper / Waiting On An Angel   Ben Harper / Walk Away   Better Way   Black Rain   Blessed To Be A Witness   Blood Side Out   Boa Sorte/Good Luck   Bones   Boots Like These   Born To Love You   Both Sides Of The Gun   Brain Washers   Break Your Heart   Breakin' Down   Breakin' Down   Bring The Funk   Brown Eyed Blues   Burn One Down   Burn To Shine   Burnin' & lootin'   Burnin' And Lootin'   Burnin' And Lootin'   By my side   Bye And Bye, I'm Going To See the King   Bye And Bye, I'm Going To See The King   Church House Steps   Church On Time   City of Dreams   Clearly Severely   Click Yo' Heels   Click Yo' Heels   Concrete Jungle   Crazy Amazing [#]   Cryin' Won't Help You Now   Cryin\u2019 Won\u2019t Help You Now   Cryin' Won't Help You Now   Dance Like Fire   Deeper and Deeper   Deportees   Diamonds On The Inside   Dirty Little Lover   Do It for You, Do It for Us   Do Right Woman   Don t Look Twice   Don't Give Up on Me Now   Don't Take That Attitude To Your Grave   Don\'t Give Up On Me Now   Don't Give Up On Me Now   Don't Take That Attitude To Your Grave   Don’t Look Twice   Dont' Take That Attitude to Your Grave   Dust My Broom   Engraved Invitation   Everything   Excuse Me Mr   excuse me Mr.   Exodus   Exscuse Me Mister   Faded   Faded / Whole Lotta Love   Faded\/whole Lotta Love   Faithfully Remain   Feel Love   Feel Love (Acoustic)   fight for your mind   Fight Outta You   Finding Our Way   Fly One Time   Fool For A Lonesome Train   Forever   Forgiven   Gather 'Round The Stone   Gather \u2018round The Stone   Gather \u2018Round The Stone (Alternate Version Mi...   Gather 'round The Stone   Get It Like You Like It   Get Up, Stand Up   Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley)   Get Up!   give a man a home   Give a Man a Home [DVD]   Glory & Consequence   Glory & Consequences   Glory & Consequence   Glory & Consequences   Glory And Consequence   Glory Consequences   God fearing man   Going To See The King   gold to me   Good Luck   Good Luck (Boa Sorte)   Goodbye to You   Ground On Down   Ground on Down [Commentary By Ben and J.P. Plunier...   Ground on Down [Commentary By J.P. Plunier in Fren...   Ground on Down [Hokey Dope Mix]   Happy Everafter In Your Eyes   Have You Ever   Having Wings   Heart Of Matters   Heavyhearted World   Helpless   Here Comes The Sun   High tide or low tide   Homeless Child   How Could We Not Believe   How Dark Is Gone   How Many Mile Must We March   How Many Miles Must We March   I Don t Believe A Word You Say   I Don’t Believe a Word You Say   I Heard It Through The Grapevine   I Heard It Through The Grapewine   I m In I m Out And I m Gone   I Ride at Dawn   I Shall Not Walk Alone   I Shall Not Walk Alone [DVD]   I Want To Be Ready   I Want to Be Ready [DVD]   I Will Not Be Broken   I'll Rise   I'll Rise   I’m in I’m Out and I’m Gone   If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again   In The Colors   In The Lord's Arms   In The Lord's Arms   In The Sun   In Your Eyes   Indifference   Inna di Red   Jah Work   Jesus is on the mainline   Jesus On the Mainline   Keep It Together   Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)   Lay There & Hate Me   Lay There and Hate Me   Lay Your Burden Down   Learn It All Again Tomorrow   Less   Let's get it on   Let's Get It On   Lifeline   Like A King   Like A King / I'll Rise   Like A King / I'll Rise   Like A King\/i'll Rise   Louis Collins   Love Gonna Walk Out On Me   Mama's Got A Girlfriend   Mama's Got A Girlfriend Now   Mama's Trippin'   Mama's Got A Girlfriend Now   Mama's Trippin'   Manic Depression   Mary   Memories of Gold   Monsanto: Farmer's Daughter   More Than Sorry   Morning Yearning   Mother Pray   My Father's House   My Father's House   Needed You Tonight   Never Leave Lonely Alone   Nobody's Fault But Mine   Nobody's Fault But Mine   Nobody's Fault But Mine (Bonus Track)   Not Fade Away   Not Fire Not Ice   Not Fire, Not Ice   Number Three   Number with No Name   One Love   One Road For Freedom   One road to freedom   Oppression   Oppression [Live][#]   Out Of My League (I Love Her)   Paris Sunrise #7   Pay the man   People Get Ready   People Lead   Picture In A Frame   Picture Of Jesus   Pink Balloon   Please Bleed   Please Bleed [live*]   Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating   Please Don\u2019t Talk About Murder While I\u2019m...   Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm...   Please me like you want to   Pleasure And Pain   power of the gospel   Pray That Our Love Sees the Dawn   Pressure Drop   Put It On Me   Quarter of a man   Reason To Mourn   Redemption Song   Remember   Remember (jimi Hendrix)   Rock N' Roll Is Free   Rock N' Roll Is Free (Single)   Roses From My Friends   Satisfied Mind   Say You Will   Serve Your Soul   Sexual Healing   She Got Kick   She's Only Happy In The Sun   She's Only Happy In The Sun   Shimmer & Shine   Shimmer And Shine   Shine   Show Me A Little Shame   Skin Thin   Slave Driver   So High So Low   So High, So Low   So You Want To Be A Rock'n Roll Star   Spilling Faith   Steal My Kisses   Steal My Kisses [live*]   Steal My Kisses From You   Strawberry Fields   Strawberry Fields Forever   Superstition   Superstition (stevie Wonder)   Suzie Blue   Sweet home chicago   Sweet Nothing Serenade   Sweet Nothing Serenade [Instrumental]   Take My Hand   Temporary Remedy   The Drug's Don't Work   The Drugs Don't Work   The Drugs Don't Work   The Drugs Dont Work   The Modern World   The Three of Us   The Way You Found Me   The Will To Live   The Woman In You   The Woman in You [live*]   The Word Suicide   There Will Be a Light   Tomorrow Is A Long Time   Touch From Your Lust   Two Hands   Two Hands Of A Prayer   Under Pressure   Up to You Now   Voodoo Chile   Voodoo Chile (Bonus Track)   Voodoo Chile (jimi Hendrix)   Waiting For A Miracle   Waiting For You   Waiting for You [alternate][Alternate Take][*]   Waiting on a Sign   Waiting On An Angel   Waiting on an Angel [Live]   Walk Away   War   Waymore's Blues   Waymore's Blues   We Can’t End This Way   Welcome To The Cruel World   Well Well Well   Well, Well, Well   When It's Good   When It's Good   When Sex Was Dirty   When She Believes   Where Could I Go   Whipping Boy   Whole Lotta Love   Why Must You Always Dress in Black   Wicked Man   Widow Of A Living Man   With My Own Two Hands   With My Two Hands   You Can't Blame The Youth   You Can't Blame The Youth (peter Tosh)   You Can't Blame The Youth   You Can't Blame The Youth (Peter Tosh)   You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend)   You should have come to me   Younger Than Today   Zimbabwe

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