Black Flags

Searching for the words to say
Shorty trying to ease my mind
Lately I've been in a mood
Blame it on the current times
Murder on my phone again
Bet u they won't t do no time
Post it on y'all instagram
Rarely do it leave my side
See what everybody on
Peek in everybody life
Take a flick before u drive
See what everybody ride
Pop a pill to drown it out
I just seen somebody die
How many we gotta lose
What u trading for your life
And don't u turn on the news
It ain't nothin but the blues
It's another automatic how he get it in the school
Ducking from them boys again
Even tho I'm innocent
I refreshed my twitter feed
Why they take them shots at him?
How did you feel threatened he ain't even got no strap on him?
Video went viral everybody seen they murdered him
Video went viral everybody seen they murdered him
I got one life to live they trynna take it from me
Whoever callin' shots a joke but that don't make it funny
Still slave owners printed on the paper money
System ain't broken shit, ain't nobody make it for me
Nigga I'm a young, black
African American
Arrogant
Let's address the problem no more dancing round the elephant
Know they hate my pigment cause they empowered by the president
Cops ain't serve no time the evidence is on the internet
Slavery wasn't abolished just reformed pay attention
No money in schools so these kids got no direction
They put crabs in a barrel
So we battle for survival
This shit ain't no coincidence just gotta make connections
They been trynna hold us down and we been playing nice
Turn the other cheek they told us it just takes some time
But the truth is they don't wanna see us together
It's been a storm 400 years we finna change the weather
This is for George, Eric, Trayvon, Philando Castile
They killed Martin Luther
Still do it for Emmitt Till
This ain't no trendy shit for your Twitter just how I feel
You know when niggas is fed up with it we can't be killed
We in them streets and they hate it
Feeling pressure cause we tearing down the system created
The constitution a lie and all your amendments is dated
So we turning up one everybody til' we see changes
You can't define the struggle with a hashtag
So if it all fall off I'll still be waving black flags
America's most wanted young educated black man
I turned my last cheek
So now I'm swingin; with these black hands, nigga

Baby don't be scared look where we're headed
Problems we can't fix all by ourself
I wonder how they lookin down from heaven
Go to war against the cards that we was dealt
You won't find no answers in that bottle
I know you just trynna ease the pain
Take a knee and pray to God tomorrow
Will be a little better than today