like ceelo green in a sea of red lights i might as well be famous since i ain t gon be white one way or another i know i ll be all right as trains go by bad times outta sight telling you that you re not what you can sing everything else here but you re born to be calling you names while trying to make you cheat shoot you dead and leave your body out in the streets like ceelo green in a sea of red lights i might as well be famous since i ain t gon be white one way or another i know i ll be all right as trains go by bad times outta sight how can a chokehold never on tv still be okay with the nyc pd since ninteen hundred sixty five thought we were free we talk about you we talk about me like ceelo green in a sea of red lights i might as well be famous since i ain t gon be white one way or another i know i ll be all right as trains go by bad times outta sight how many bodies need to hit the ground for the masses raise their voice and they make a sound hold a cherry coke whatever takes them down think about a dance when you hear the sound while martin sleeps brother malcom is awake this time they won t plop on our piece of cake set em free then friends let our reparation shake everybody shake no time to waste  like ceelo green in a sea of red lights i might as well be famous since i ain t gon be white one way or another i know i ll be all right as trains go by bad times outta sight