Outsiders
Looking outside
At the riot in the streets
A slave to the game
Can't never call retreat
We do it for the change
Why can't we all be free
Don't do it for the fame
All my people want is peace
Ups and downs
Through the struggle we still grow
Turn around
All the sins of the old
Do them proud
For my people from before
Come on now
We hand in hand down this road
Come on out
Put you hands up
I said freeze
I thought he had a gun
So i shot him in the knee
I let em bleed out
Can't take no risk
He might hurt me
I did for the people
Once less black guy in the streets
Y'all let him off once
Now he feeling victory
While the momma at home
Planning a funeral while she weeps
Guilty of a murder
But y'all let him walk off free
Didn't even tell the truth
Now he back out in the streets
Didn't tell you how
He followed him for 16 minutes
Pulled him over asking questions
Wouldn't let him say a sentence
Didn't even show a badge
It's too dark
There's no witness
Pulled em out the car
But you the one acting defensive 
Now he dead
And the department begs forgiveness
Then the people starting riots but you only see one image
Media only shows blacks dying
To take away attention
They make us out as violent so the cycle never ending
Looking outside
At the riot in the streets
A slave to the game
Can't never call retreat
We do it for the change
Why can't we all be free
Don't do it for the fame
All my people want is peace
Ups and downs
Through the storm and through the rain
Turn around
All the history of our pain
Do them proud
For my people that want change
Come on now
Cause together there's a way
A voice of the voiceless
Even i have made bad choices
We wanna make it out the hood
But we can't even afford it
They talk about our environment
Been hearing all the noises
They claim we need police and laws
But look how they enforce it
They see the color of our skin
They think that it's poison
Can't even endorse us
Only got a few choices
That's to ball jail or college to making out these streets
And i never said that we were perfect
Because i know we all can't be
But we all want one thing
And that's equality
I'm dying for my brothers
Cause i know they'd die for me
I'm talking to my brother
Cause of curiosity
He said up in these streets
You gotta keep a piece for peace
Never seen as innocent
Just more and more sentencing
All these black women missing and
Can't even start our businesses
Not all whites racist
Not all cops guilty and
Not all people hate us
They just show that on CNN
Looking outside
At the riot in the streets
A slave to the game
Can't never call retreat
We do it for the change
Why can't we all be free
Don't do it for the fame
All my people want is peace
Ups and downs
Through the struggle we still grow
Turn around
All the sins of the old
Do them proud
For my people from before
Come on now
We hand in hand down this road
At the riot in the streets
A slave to the game
Can't never call retreat
We do it for the change
Why can't we all be free
Don't do it for the fame
All my people want is peace
Ups and downs
Through the struggle we still grow
Turn around
All the sins of the old
Do them proud
For my people from before
Come on now
We hand in hand down this road
Come on out
Put you hands up
I said freeze
I thought he had a gun
So i shot him in the knee
I let em bleed out
Can't take no risk
He might hurt me
I did for the people
Once less black guy in the streets
Y'all let him off once
Now he feeling victory
While the momma at home
Planning a funeral while she weeps
Guilty of a murder
But y'all let him walk off free
Didn't even tell the truth
Now he back out in the streets
Didn't tell you how
He followed him for 16 minutes
Pulled him over asking questions
Wouldn't let him say a sentence
Didn't even show a badge
It's too dark
There's no witness
Pulled em out the car
But you the one acting defensive 
Now he dead
And the department begs forgiveness
Then the people starting riots but you only see one image
Media only shows blacks dying
To take away attention
They make us out as violent so the cycle never ending
Looking outside
At the riot in the streets
A slave to the game
Can't never call retreat
We do it for the change
Why can't we all be free
Don't do it for the fame
All my people want is peace
Ups and downs
Through the storm and through the rain
Turn around
All the history of our pain
Do them proud
For my people that want change
Come on now
Cause together there's a way
A voice of the voiceless
Even i have made bad choices
We wanna make it out the hood
But we can't even afford it
They talk about our environment
Been hearing all the noises
They claim we need police and laws
But look how they enforce it
They see the color of our skin
They think that it's poison
Can't even endorse us
Only got a few choices
That's to ball jail or college to making out these streets
And i never said that we were perfect
Because i know we all can't be
But we all want one thing
And that's equality
I'm dying for my brothers
Cause i know they'd die for me
I'm talking to my brother
Cause of curiosity
He said up in these streets
You gotta keep a piece for peace
Never seen as innocent
Just more and more sentencing
All these black women missing and
Can't even start our businesses
Not all whites racist
Not all cops guilty and
Not all people hate us
They just show that on CNN
Looking outside
At the riot in the streets
A slave to the game
Can't never call retreat
We do it for the change
Why can't we all be free
Don't do it for the fame
All my people want is peace
Ups and downs
Through the struggle we still grow
Turn around
All the sins of the old
Do them proud
For my people from before
Come on now
We hand in hand down this road
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Writer(s): Ronnie Potter
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