Baltimore

I dream I am a rebel
Bearing the marks of Jesus
Screaming Jeremiads
Waving the flag of scars and gripes
Blue uniforms extinguish pink fire
Shadows rise

We out here marching they city
Traffic stoppers stomping with me
Invisible systems fence me
Riot gear on those against me
Voice hoarse
See the boys on a horse while I die in
Only armor that I'm sporting been absorbed, it's my skin

Bandana round my face to keep the spray from out my nostril
Stop and frisk surveillance so my energy be hostile
You say peace but you saying that to pacify me
Nah I see through what's deceitful you can't gratify me
With your calculated apologies
There is no honesty
You gon need a little more to outwit me
That's hollow scheme
So I'm out here in the street
With my fist in the air
That's pepper we smelling
That ain't no mist in the air
You should tremble for your symbols remember that God is just
I know your systems want me missing but I'm here and God's with us
You see me as a threat
Scared to death of my life
I'm desperate, if you think I'll grab a weapon you're right

If I gotta cop a bottle and toss it to stay from shot up
Then so be it
Molotov cocktails all up in your Starbucks
Tea up in your harbor
I harbor revolutionary thoughts up in your yard bruh
Unguard to what you've authored

The heart of my acts lie in your lies, undisguised
Both a dream and a nightmare, I am the uprise
I been robbed, I been stolen from
I want what's mine
You call me a looter
But whose looting whom
My demise is designed

I don't care about these TVs
I just want for you to see me
I won't cool it
You think I'm stupid
These two fists you can meet these
Fire bomb on your city
Come and get me you like you want to
I can't say taking my life is something that it couldn't come to
Suicidal thinking
You could kill me tonight
I might as well die for freedom
Only seems right
I got the light
I see the light
From the flames screaming from the top of cop cars
This escalated quickly, tryna stop war
But you started that

We mobbing back
Back against the wall
Go and place my path on martyr tracks
My actions have evolved
Peace is costly, Ima honor that
With madness for a cause
It be ugly till it's over
Time to uproot and destroy
And I ain't afraid to die
Nah I ain't afraid to die, my Lord
Nah I ain't afraid to die
Nah I ain't afraid to die, my Lord

I'm standing, not moving
They running and shooting
But I ain't afraid to die
Nah I ain't afraid to die
Nah I ain't afraid to die, my Lord

I'm more than a bit fatigued
It's war up in these streets
You should prolly tread softly
We get no justice, you get no peace
I'm more than a bit fatigued
It's war up in these streets
You should prolly tread softly
We get no justice, you get no peace

Spot your power, I attack it
Kuz you use it to diminish me
You may think it's drastic
But excuse me I'm defending dreams
We apart of heart the uprise
We're tearing up lies
You can look I ain't showing no fear in my eyes
I'll throw it all on the line
We know, we know
We know the tricks we done been here before
Yea we know, we know
Kicked to the floor but we screaming no more
Yea, that's dangerous
They can't handle us so they just aim at us
They think we brainless but we know, we know
You tried to sell me on broken potential
I resent who sent you, it's a shame when the hate is central
Oh, that's dangerous
They can't handle us so they just aim at us
They think we brainless but we know, we know

Yea we know, we know
Oh, that's dangerous
They can't handle us so they just aim at us
They think we brainless but we know, we know
We know, we know
I ain't afraid to die
Nah, I ain't afraid to die, my Lord