Name: Throw My Hands Up
Duration: P00H05M49S
Description: Throw My Hands Up, is old school gospel-influenced funk R&B. It deliberately asks the rhetorical question ‘why do American police resort to violent gun use to resolve most matters in communities of darker complexions?

Throw My Hands Up

by B-Mack

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Throw My Hands Up, is old school gospel-influenced funk R&B. It deliberately asks the rhetorical question ‘why do American police resort to violent gun use to resolve most matters in communities of darker complexions?

lyrics

I raise my hands
I walk the line
Can I stand my ground though
Can I speak my mind

Now does my life count
Do you understand
Are we included
In the rights of man

IF I RAISE MY HANDS UP
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE
WHILE YOU're STILL SHOOTING ME

SHOULD I THROW MY HANDS UP
LET THE UNIVERSE DEAL WITH THIS THING
THE MOST HIGH HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES
YOU DON't WANT ME TO START TO SWING

I THROW MY HANDS UP!
I THROW MY HANDS UP!
I THROW MY HANDS UP!

I raise my hands
I walk the line
Can I stand my ground though
Can I speak my mind

Now does my life count
Do you understand
Are we included
In the rights of man

CHORUS:
IF I RAISE MY HANDS UP
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE
WHILE YOU're STILL SHOOTING ME

SHOULD I THROW MY HANDS UP
LET THE UNIVERSE DEAL WITH THIS THING
THE MOST HIGH HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES
YOU DON't WANT ME TO START TO SWING

I THROW MY HANDS UP!
I THROW MY HANDS UP!
I THROW MY HANDS UP!

Tell me what it look like
Whatcha' Eyes see
Can you speak truth to me

Can I get a witness
You will listen to
Or do you only hear a dead me

Tell me why your hate flows
Why you wanna fight
Why you draw fear at me

Tell me what will it take
For you to see
That your spirit's going no where

credits

released August 17, 2022
Recorded & Co-Produced by guitarist Michael Cox - featured guitar solos
Other guitars performed by co-composer Ken Edmonds.
Songs written & arranged by Bruce Mack, lead vocals, keys&synthesizer
Backing vocals on Throw My Hands Up: Martha Redbone & Denise Creswell

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Bruce Mack New York, New York

Award winning Music Conceptualist/Vocalist & Composer Bruce Mack the artist/band is a multi-genre vocalist, composer & instrumentalist who performs and fuses various styles of music with funk & space in mind, generating a sound he calls “alternative rhythm & blues”.
B-Mack is also an original contributing artist to Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber ... more

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