Bolden Boke Boy - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

If I move slowly through this task

I will earn some rest

If I move quickly and surely

I will do my best

I’m sad to see things change

For you who were such good friends

One should walk the way one needs

And when the way is crooked one bends

Out that evening it makes me sick to think

You put your hands up as if to say

I won’t be part of what you do

Life ain’t war least not today

If I move slowly through this task

I will earn some rest

If I move quickly and surely

I will do my best

This is how it would be

When we would meet often to see

How easy things could be made

And still go down unanxiously

Once you were chased down the street by blacks

Screaming about how cool it is

To be black and you ducked away

It will never be as cool as this

If I move slowly through this task

I will earn some rest

If I move quickly and surely

I will do my best

Then it was needed to become rough

In order not to be inhuman

Uncanny unable and unwilling

To think about not having children