My friend Propaganda hopped on the new track and had something to say. “Red & Blue” (Remix) is out now. 

"Red & Blue" is about an incident I had with my friends one time in NY when we were randomly stopped and searched for weapons and drugs, and the cops falsely accused me of having a gun on me. It wasn’t the first time I was pulled over like that, and it wouldn’t be the last.

Red & Blue (Remix)

We all have a role to play. We all have *something* to offer.

Days after the racist mass shooting in Charleston in 2015, I’d been lying on the floor of my studio in tears about racial violence. The words of Martin Luther King, Jr. swam through my thoughts: “We must either learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish as fools.”

Those words had never felt so salient. And it felt like the thing I needed to tell the world (I wouldn’t find MY OWN message til the following year).

But *how* would I play a part in bringing that message to people who needed to hear it? I didn’t have any activist experience or a social justice education...

I looked across the room and saw my guitar: *that’s* what I had. And I began to write songs again, but these songs were different from the romantic ballads that dominated my catalog before. That day I began *trying* to write songs about freedom. It’d take me a couple of years to get the hang of it.

Here is what all that work has matured into.

Listen to "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Remix)": https://smarturl.it/AndreHenryDHTBRemix

It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Remix)

We all come from somewhere. This is the story of where I came from.

ANYTHING

You're gonna' wanna' look yourself in the mirror or give yourself a hug while you sing this one.

LOVE MYSELF (Andy Grammer Cover)

Waiting In Vain

(Verse 1) 
Preacher So-and-So 
He ain’ got no good news for me 
Even though I’m seein’ bodies hit the street like fallin’ leaves He said “All I know is Jesus 
Yeah that’s all I know to preach” 
I guess Jesus doesn’t care if I get killed by the police 
I guess Jesus doesn’t care if I get killed by the police 
I guess Jesus doesn’t care if I get killed by the police 
I guess Jesus doesn’t care if I get killed by the police 

(Pre-Chorus 1) 
Now come on 
That ain’ no gospel too much 
I thought that Christians were supposed to love they neighbor and such But every Sunday I’m subjected to some mediocre lesson 
having no specific reference to the world that I touch 

(Chorus) 
Come on 
This could not be the truth 
This shit is not good news 
If it’s gon’ be that way 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday I’m...I’m just keepin’ it real 
It’s just the way I feel 
The shh is not okay 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 

(Verse 2) 
Deacon So-and-so 
She think that I should cut my hair 
She don’t like my dirty mouth 
She don’t like anything I wear 
She don’t like the way I swing my hips when I be in the pew But she got nothin’ to say about the lies that pass for news 

(Pre-Chorus 2) 
Now come on 
Is that the God that you know? 
Guess what I’m wearin’ has some bearin’ on the state of my soul 
But does He care about the neighborhood 
Just tell me if He’s looking 
Are you saying that the Savior wouldn’t save me cause my hoodie 

(Chorus) 
Come on 
This could not be the truth 
This shit is not good news 
If it’s gon’ be that way 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday I’m...I’m just keepin’ it real 
It’s just the way I feel 
The shh is not okay 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 

(Bridge) 
I still believe in the One God 
Who hovered over the chaos 
Who heard the cry of slaves in the brickyard and waged war on the old gods 
I still believe in the One God 
The One that Dr. King an’ ‘em worshipped 
But if they not gonna’ teach ‘im 
Then I’m not gonna listen 

(Final Chorus) 
I’m just speaking my truth 
This shit is not good news 
If it’s gon’ be that way 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday I’m...I’m just keepin’ it real 
It’s just the way I feel 
The shit is not okay 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 

I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 
I don’t think I’ll go to church this Sunday 

No I'm not wakin' up for church this Sunday.

Playing Hookey [Explicit]

Producer(s): Andre Henry & Jon Mark Deardoff
Executive Producer:  Andre Henry
Synthesizers – Andre Henry
Drum Programming – Andre Henry
Electric Guitars – Andre Henry, Jon Damiani, Micah Jones
Bass Guitar - Sam Beumier
Lead Vocals – Andre Henry
BG Vox – Andre Henry
Mixing Engineer: Ryan Lipman
Mastering Engineer: Pete Lyman

LYRICS:
(Verse 1)
He was alive for just a few days
But he scared someone
at the park with his little toy gun
Little baby boy and a threat
Yeah we cry for him
But we don’t have many tears left


(Chorus)
Woah! How long must we sing these songs?
(repeat)

(Chant)
No it won’t stop because we’re upset
And it won’t stop because of our fear
No it won’t stop until we repent of all the black bodies broken ‘round here

(Verse 2)
She was alive for just a few days
Tore the world apart with the broke light on the back of her car
Mortal sin that leadeth to death
Yeah we cry for her
But we don’t have many tears left

(Chorus)
Woah! How long must we sing these songs?
(repeat)

(Chant)
No it won’t stop because we’re upset
And it won’t stop because of our fear
No it won’t stop because we need rest
No it won’t stop because of our tears
No it won’t stop until we confess all the blood that we spill around here
No it won’t stop until we repent of all the black bodies broken ‘round here

All the Black bodies broken round here
All the Black bodies broken round here
No it won't stop until we repent of all the Black bodies broken round here

won’t stop because we’re upset
won’t stop because of our fear
won’t top because we need rest
won’t stop because of our tears
won’t stop until we confess all the blood that we spill around here
won’t stop until we repent of all the black bodies broken ‘round here

(Chorus)

How Long

"Red & Blue" is about an incident I had with my friends one time in NY when we were randomly stopped and searched for weapons and drugs, and the cops falsely accused me of having a gun on me. It wasn’t the first time I was pulled over like that, and it wouldn’t be the last.

“Red Blue” is a part of my yearlong journey to release one new song a month. Get ready!  

Listen to "Red, Blue": smarturl.it/AndreHenryRedBlue

Red & Blue

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