Dan Navarro and Janiva Magness - $20 Bill (for George Floyd)

$20 Bill (for George Floyd)

Music and lyrics by Tom Prasada-Rao (BMI)

Some people die for honor
Some people die for love
Some people die while singing
To the heavens above
Some people die believing
In the cross on Calvary Hill
And some people die
In the blink of an eye
For a $20 bill

Some people go out in glory
Yeah, with the wind at their back
Some get to tell their own story
Write their own epitaph
Sometimes you see it coming
Sometimes you don’t know until
You run out of breath
With a knee on your neck
For a $20 bill

Oh brother
I never knew you
And now I never will
But I make this promise to you
I’ll remember you still

So now let this be our communion
It’s time to break the bread
Do this in remembrance
Just like the good book said
Sometimes the wine is a sacrament
Sometimes the blood is just spilled
And sometimes the law
Is the devil’s last straw
A future unfulfilled
Just like the dream they killed
For a $20 bill