'Living in a New World'

Students at Banks Middle School in Birmingham, Ala., captured the spirit of the blues in "Living in a New World":

Changes gotta start somewhere
There are brothers who are dying and mothers who are crying
I live in a place called the ghetto where people are shooting all night
I used to gang bang and gamble all night long
Losing my money and I can't go home
Now tell me what Black people are supposed to do
We need to start a new life, living in a new world …