Books by Thomas Long

Reflections of My Soul  /  Papa Don't Preach / A Thug's Life  / Cash Rules / Around the Way Girls

DVD:  4 Life ( a film based on the novel A Thug's Life)

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1 in 2 Million

        By Thomas Long

If you wasn't there to be counted

don't open up your mouth

nobody could've predicted

the way things turned out

You tried to separate us from Farrakhan

but it didn't happen

I saw Bloods and Cripps come together

and they've wasn't strapping

I met brothers from D.C.

Chicago, and even L.A.

Many years of struggle

but this was our day

No blunts being smoked

enemies standing side by side

No matter what you tried

this day, the love couldn't be denied

You said it was only 800,000

your mathematics is wack

But you'll get another chance to count

cause we coming back

Stronger with a force

to reclaim what's ours

Put my family back together

so you can really see Black Power

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posted 4/21/04