Black Lives Matter
Welcome to the life I live where I thought that I was gonna go crazy
And it felt like I did
Down the road march to the foes weary with targeted skin
But we gettin rest for the kids
Cause who am I to sit on my black ass as if justice is free
Like ain't no price to live in peace if you look even sightly like me
Like we wasn't set up differently
Yours granted access to ends
You'd never have to defend
Or depend on a system meant to only give you privileged access to pen
Convinced you're never enough
Stained with a pain our ancestors thought they'd taken for us
Where without cries from or for our mothers your reaper will take us in deafening silence
And outcry for rights labeled as trivial violence
Now I see
Its not an issue of issues gone unseen
But the fact you neglect your willful ignorance affects me
And though we beg and we plead
Body after body forced to head to the streets
Gassed or not these tears that stream are all too familiar to me
Knees to concrete not in prayer but in proclamation of the words that are haunting
I can't breathe, there's no reprieve
And you will still aim to fault me in torment
I can not brandish a weapon I was born with
White man we did not ask to be in this country we were forced in
You swore to serve and protect
Well sir would you please get your foot out of my neck
Or at least give my momma some justice with my personal effects
And then you ask why we riot
It's cause we're sick and we're tired of fighting
Only for you to have decided
To ignore what was the cause and place your focus on the after
When all we ask is in our deaths, for skin tone not to be a factor
And in our births to be reverenced without the words being splattered
But until then, we fight for kin
We raise our fists
Black Lives Matter
Up ahead there's a long winded fight for peace
If I don't well then who is gonna fight for me
Unfair to be given to be given this life it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
My friend took a really long time to see
System hasn't ever been meant for we
Unfair to be given this fight it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
Its alright my nigga
Know you gettin tired seems the task's getting bigger
know the times seem dark but the light don't whither
They can never kill the fight in us
Its alright my nigga
Know you gettin tired know the task seems bigger
know the times seem dark but the light don't whither
They can never kill the fight in us
Up ahead there's a long winded fight for peace
If I don't fight well who is gonna fight for me
Unfair to be given to be given this life it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
My friend took a really long time to see
System hasn't ever been meant for we
Unfair to be given this life it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
Its alright my nigga
Know you seem tired know the task seems bigger
know the times seem dark but the light don't whither
They can never kill the fight in us
And it felt like I did
Down the road march to the foes weary with targeted skin
But we gettin rest for the kids
Cause who am I to sit on my black ass as if justice is free
Like ain't no price to live in peace if you look even sightly like me
Like we wasn't set up differently
Yours granted access to ends
You'd never have to defend
Or depend on a system meant to only give you privileged access to pen
Convinced you're never enough
Stained with a pain our ancestors thought they'd taken for us
Where without cries from or for our mothers your reaper will take us in deafening silence
And outcry for rights labeled as trivial violence
Now I see
Its not an issue of issues gone unseen
But the fact you neglect your willful ignorance affects me
And though we beg and we plead
Body after body forced to head to the streets
Gassed or not these tears that stream are all too familiar to me
Knees to concrete not in prayer but in proclamation of the words that are haunting
I can't breathe, there's no reprieve
And you will still aim to fault me in torment
I can not brandish a weapon I was born with
White man we did not ask to be in this country we were forced in
You swore to serve and protect
Well sir would you please get your foot out of my neck
Or at least give my momma some justice with my personal effects
And then you ask why we riot
It's cause we're sick and we're tired of fighting
Only for you to have decided
To ignore what was the cause and place your focus on the after
When all we ask is in our deaths, for skin tone not to be a factor
And in our births to be reverenced without the words being splattered
But until then, we fight for kin
We raise our fists
Black Lives Matter
Up ahead there's a long winded fight for peace
If I don't well then who is gonna fight for me
Unfair to be given to be given this life it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
My friend took a really long time to see
System hasn't ever been meant for we
Unfair to be given this fight it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
Its alright my nigga
Know you gettin tired seems the task's getting bigger
know the times seem dark but the light don't whither
They can never kill the fight in us
Its alright my nigga
Know you gettin tired know the task seems bigger
know the times seem dark but the light don't whither
They can never kill the fight in us
Up ahead there's a long winded fight for peace
If I don't fight well who is gonna fight for me
Unfair to be given to be given this life it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
My friend took a really long time to see
System hasn't ever been meant for we
Unfair to be given this life it seems
But somethings coming
Gotta keep goin goin
Its alright my nigga
Know you seem tired know the task seems bigger
know the times seem dark but the light don't whither
They can never kill the fight in us
Credits
Writer(s): Zaire Porter
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.