This city of song:
Bird gave birth to bebop here.
Now bullets blast loud
Frustration and anger over racial situations that haven’t improved much. Kansas City has an interesting history but it has been primarily focused on the successes of it’s white citizens. In more recent years the darker, sadder history of Kansas City is being talked about. It’s this history that has created the frustration and anger in the African-American community.
I think this is interesting because in the first verse it makes a kind of happy place using music like jazz to say how smooth and amazing it used to be. But then in the second verse it says it now has been onsite and now the only song the street has is the sound of a gun.
composing dark symphonies
played for liveless brown bodies.
Kansas City knows
terror is a tricky tune.
Like America,
we still want to dance, we just
need to remember the moves.
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