| Lyrics : | This song is dedicated to all the people in this world who fell victim to ignorance and had their life taken from them……
No tolerance for any kind
Especially for people with different minds
Hated and abused for who they are
Shunned, eyeballed and treated like scum
December twelve, ninety seven
A rivalry taken too far
An unruly fight with sticks, chains and bats
Hatred and discrimination
A fight for freedom of self expression
appearance teasing cause of death
No one could hear a simple voice
In the crowd of procuracy
All was heard was the crushing body of Brian Deneke
He was a victim of hate at only 19
A boy at the wheel with a grin on his face
Stares at the dying body
And dares to say “I bet he enjoyed that”
No tolerance for any kind
Not even for an opposite race
Hated and abused for who they are
Through white waters and diluted dreams
They fight to be considered human beings
June seventh, ninety eight
A hate crime because of race
James Byrd a musical man of 49
Was stripped of his life and pride
Stripped naked and chained to a truck
His flesh torn off as 3 men
Drug him to his death
Through gravel streets
No one could hear his bleeding screams
Tousled and sliding from side to side
Until a metal pipe took his life
Decapitated and mutilated
No one would ever hear
This man’s beautiful voice again
No tolerance for any kind
Especially gays in this society
Hated and abused for who they are
Called names until incinerated
By death through murder or suicide
October twelve, ninety eight
Tricked to his death
Through dirty hate
A last ride Mathew Sheppard took
With two men who had death on mind
Stripped naked, his money took for drugs
Beaten abused Strung to a fence
With the laces from his shoes
And left there to die at 21
No one for miles to hear his pleading cries
No tolerance for any kind
Hated and abused for who they were
Their lives stripped from them because they were
A punk, a black, and a gay
Who has the right to take a life
Life is too precious to take advantage of
Mind your own business and live your life
There is no room in this world for hate
Hate is murder
Murder is hate
No one’s life
Is yours to take
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