Living In Color
Yeah
2TWENTY2 you heard?
Musicallysincere
I'm speaking for the people
Yeah
One time
One time
Yeah
Yeah
Sitting back and relaxing
Rolled a joint and I'm passing
To the guys on the left
If they were matching
Matching colors
Out here killing my matching brothers
Pressures on their necks
Yet we calling for our mothers
I'm a Person of color
But yet I feel blessed
While white america is out here
Putting my patience to the test
We sit in distress
Hear our cry's with these protests
A little color you're scared?
I can't breathe did you hear
The gunshots and screams
That started piercing the air?
I'm mad and you know this,
Yet I feel like i was chosen
To finally speak upon something
Like a system thats broken
They almost had me once
Freedom almost was stolen.
Not judged by a crime
I was Judged by melatonin
So I sit and I'm focused
Building words of importance
Putting people on notice
Preaching words like I'm Moses
Speaking so much I'm foaming
Feeling a way and I'm hoping
That y'all will listen
And know I'm not joking
We're always getting shot
By these crooked ass cops
No one cares anymore
So we sit and respond
No longer stuck in silence
We're just building some bonds
Were only doing this
Because of the problems they cause.
We're needing some more action
Powers are just running their jaws
The world is up in flames
Yet we're worried bout these names
Not worried bout these masks
Since we have to dig these graves
We're on the frontlines,
Struggling with hard times
Government giving checks
Telling us that we'll be fine.
Our health is on a decline
Trump you need to resign
Or give us better help
Or give these cops a new design
We looking at the future
But the futures stuck in these shrines
Afraid to walk outside
Cause your bullets taking lives
Afraid to walk outside
Cause your bullets might take mine.
Afaraid to walk outside
Cause you cops be telling lies
Corona taking over
Following orders like a soldier
Killing thousands like the joker
The infections going lower
Get me off this coaster
Tired of going up and over
These rails you call life
People only getting colder
I'm only growing older
So why do I search for closure?
I stare at the world in horror
Fear for my future daughter
That' she's not accepted
Because her skin is the color
Of cinnamon
Speaking truth I'm sincere again
I just wanted you to hear me
We're being treated so differently
Open your eyes and see visually
In their eyes we're the enemy
Open our mouths
you know vocally
We're making changes and hopefully
That the world is accepting,
We're finally doing this openly.
Glad you finally came and joined the ride
Because now's the time
To worry about the future i
Care about the world let me clarify
I want justice AND peace for you and I
2TWENTY2 you heard?
Musicallysincere
I'm speaking for the people
Yeah
One time
One time
Yeah
Yeah
Sitting back and relaxing
Rolled a joint and I'm passing
To the guys on the left
If they were matching
Matching colors
Out here killing my matching brothers
Pressures on their necks
Yet we calling for our mothers
I'm a Person of color
But yet I feel blessed
While white america is out here
Putting my patience to the test
We sit in distress
Hear our cry's with these protests
A little color you're scared?
I can't breathe did you hear
The gunshots and screams
That started piercing the air?
I'm mad and you know this,
Yet I feel like i was chosen
To finally speak upon something
Like a system thats broken
They almost had me once
Freedom almost was stolen.
Not judged by a crime
I was Judged by melatonin
So I sit and I'm focused
Building words of importance
Putting people on notice
Preaching words like I'm Moses
Speaking so much I'm foaming
Feeling a way and I'm hoping
That y'all will listen
And know I'm not joking
We're always getting shot
By these crooked ass cops
No one cares anymore
So we sit and respond
No longer stuck in silence
We're just building some bonds
Were only doing this
Because of the problems they cause.
We're needing some more action
Powers are just running their jaws
The world is up in flames
Yet we're worried bout these names
Not worried bout these masks
Since we have to dig these graves
We're on the frontlines,
Struggling with hard times
Government giving checks
Telling us that we'll be fine.
Our health is on a decline
Trump you need to resign
Or give us better help
Or give these cops a new design
We looking at the future
But the futures stuck in these shrines
Afraid to walk outside
Cause your bullets taking lives
Afraid to walk outside
Cause your bullets might take mine.
Afaraid to walk outside
Cause you cops be telling lies
Corona taking over
Following orders like a soldier
Killing thousands like the joker
The infections going lower
Get me off this coaster
Tired of going up and over
These rails you call life
People only getting colder
I'm only growing older
So why do I search for closure?
I stare at the world in horror
Fear for my future daughter
That' she's not accepted
Because her skin is the color
Of cinnamon
Speaking truth I'm sincere again
I just wanted you to hear me
We're being treated so differently
Open your eyes and see visually
In their eyes we're the enemy
Open our mouths
you know vocally
We're making changes and hopefully
That the world is accepting,
We're finally doing this openly.
Glad you finally came and joined the ride
Because now's the time
To worry about the future i
Care about the world let me clarify
I want justice AND peace for you and I
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Writer(s): Chinier Bennett
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