Breathe
No more generations will accept the fall
No more names and pictures painted on a wall
We have marched on every street
On the blood of those before me
Mothers weep for justice while you take a knee
You kept our legacy asleep
We woke up strong
You try to push a narrative
But ain't it funny how the ones you hate you took from, then you're saying it's the land of the free
And then you give an animal a gun and suddenly he can decide humanity
But I will breathe
You can't take my voice away from me
Try to knock me down and you will see
My strength is like a fire that will not subside
Or be denied
So please, do not be mislead when you see tears
My feet will not walk away from fear
Heed my declaration, won't go silently
Till we are free to breathe
No more time for wasting time over again
I see you still treat us like three fifths of a man
The ugly truth that no one sees
Never goes away or hides under the blanket statements you keep feeding me
Now we're regurgitating all the consumed hate
We don't want no strife but all we feel is rage
Ain't that society
How family waited fifteen years for my brother to be free
But I will breathe
You can't take my voice away from me
Try to knock me down and you will see
My strength is like a fire that will not subside
Or be denied
So please, do not be mislead when you see tears
My feet will not walk away from fear
Heed my declaration, won't go silently
Till we are free to breathe
Why dem neva did tell me that this world ablaze
Living minimum purpose for minimum wage
And the dutty swine guh try tief all mi people dem
Black people been fighting a war without an army
You could never look this rested
Up under all this pressure
I am not your blood, I'm your Bloody Mary
Blood bend Kevin and Karen
Shower them with some gold
Make'em drive to get a slice
Just to blow up the spot and go
Let them know
The work ain't done until the children are safe
The world gone burn until Black women get their respect
Family curses being broken
Heal my trauma, help my people
Kill the devil, but whose evil?
Speak no, see no, hear no police force
I'm an indigo child, cyant police me if they see me
But you want to and I feel it
Don't really know what your problem is
But it don't matter in this Gen Z era
You step to us
We stepping on you
But I will breathe
You can't take my voice away from me
Try to knock me down and you will see
My strength is like a fire that will not subside
Or be denied
So please, do not be mislead when you see tears
My feet will not walk away from fear
Heed my declaration, won't go silently
Till we are free to breathe
No more names and pictures painted on a wall
We have marched on every street
On the blood of those before me
Mothers weep for justice while you take a knee
You kept our legacy asleep
We woke up strong
You try to push a narrative
But ain't it funny how the ones you hate you took from, then you're saying it's the land of the free
And then you give an animal a gun and suddenly he can decide humanity
But I will breathe
You can't take my voice away from me
Try to knock me down and you will see
My strength is like a fire that will not subside
Or be denied
So please, do not be mislead when you see tears
My feet will not walk away from fear
Heed my declaration, won't go silently
Till we are free to breathe
No more time for wasting time over again
I see you still treat us like three fifths of a man
The ugly truth that no one sees
Never goes away or hides under the blanket statements you keep feeding me
Now we're regurgitating all the consumed hate
We don't want no strife but all we feel is rage
Ain't that society
How family waited fifteen years for my brother to be free
But I will breathe
You can't take my voice away from me
Try to knock me down and you will see
My strength is like a fire that will not subside
Or be denied
So please, do not be mislead when you see tears
My feet will not walk away from fear
Heed my declaration, won't go silently
Till we are free to breathe
Why dem neva did tell me that this world ablaze
Living minimum purpose for minimum wage
And the dutty swine guh try tief all mi people dem
Black people been fighting a war without an army
You could never look this rested
Up under all this pressure
I am not your blood, I'm your Bloody Mary
Blood bend Kevin and Karen
Shower them with some gold
Make'em drive to get a slice
Just to blow up the spot and go
Let them know
The work ain't done until the children are safe
The world gone burn until Black women get their respect
Family curses being broken
Heal my trauma, help my people
Kill the devil, but whose evil?
Speak no, see no, hear no police force
I'm an indigo child, cyant police me if they see me
But you want to and I feel it
Don't really know what your problem is
But it don't matter in this Gen Z era
You step to us
We stepping on you
But I will breathe
You can't take my voice away from me
Try to knock me down and you will see
My strength is like a fire that will not subside
Or be denied
So please, do not be mislead when you see tears
My feet will not walk away from fear
Heed my declaration, won't go silently
Till we are free to breathe
Credits
Writer(s): Nathaniel Myles
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