Welfare
Defaulted to benefit
From our enslavement
Generation after generation
Born at the top
Held up by our backs
And choosing
To turn the other cheek
That's privilege
To inhabit your skin without fear
To inhabit your body without shame
To love who you want
To walk at night alone
To be standing on the outside looking in
That's privilege
Welfare, welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
To navigate the spaces we're not allowed to roam
Blind to an exclusion you'll never have to know
Dismantle the whole thing or nothing will change
Cuz the system was built to protect
Your privilege
Welfare, welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
The safety of your fragility is priority
In this war
Against poor bodies and minorities
In this war
Against women and the not so binary
In this war
Against all black bodies fighting globally
There's no peace
Without justice
Our kids are casualties
From favela to Palestine
All our mothers weep
From plantation to president
Still the same story
From the classroom to prison cell's
The new chattel slavery
Welfare, welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
From our enslavement
Generation after generation
Born at the top
Held up by our backs
And choosing
To turn the other cheek
That's privilege
To inhabit your skin without fear
To inhabit your body without shame
To love who you want
To walk at night alone
To be standing on the outside looking in
That's privilege
Welfare, welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
To navigate the spaces we're not allowed to roam
Blind to an exclusion you'll never have to know
Dismantle the whole thing or nothing will change
Cuz the system was built to protect
Your privilege
Welfare, welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
The safety of your fragility is priority
In this war
Against poor bodies and minorities
In this war
Against women and the not so binary
In this war
Against all black bodies fighting globally
There's no peace
Without justice
Our kids are casualties
From favela to Palestine
All our mothers weep
From plantation to president
Still the same story
From the classroom to prison cell's
The new chattel slavery
Welfare, welfare!
They built an empire
Off your backs, off your backs
Taxing your labor to secure their fortune
With no accountability
Cough up that restitution
Make you pay your debt to me
Credits
Writer(s): Flora Lucini
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