Civil War
As I'm washing all the blood that spilled across the cold tile floor,
I try to catch my breath with my
Back pressed against the bathroom door,
And I want to scream so someone hears but then I think what for,
Cause I'm the only one that can fight, in my own Civil War.
2012 I was just a kid,
Who lived up the street from Trayvon the same day that he got killed,
Hoodie and skittles were recovered from the
Scene, scariest thing is both of us was seventeen,
Rewind 400 years, captive on a slave-ship,
Fast forward to now, still dealing with the same st!
Trying to survive while making words rhyme,
In the land of the free, but freedom is a blurred line,
Half a million in prison, half a million that's missing,
All those fathers and sons, take a second sit back and listen,
They sent your daddy up the road,
He in the chain-gang.
Call it slavery call it prison it's the same thing.
When police brutality becomes reality,
Then I'm the casualty of technicality,
Living with this insanity is my fking tragedy.
I'm on this road alone I'm fighting for my family
As I'm washing all the blood that spilled across the cold tile floor,
I try to catch my breath with my
Back pressed against the bathroom door,
And I want to scream so someone hears but then I think what for,
Cause I'm the only one that can fight, in my own Civil War.
With all the change that we've been fighting for,
We've been here before. Steady moving forward, we won't be ignored,
For you to change your heart and mind is what we're asking for,
Our fight is with the system it's so fked up at its core!
I relive the pain every time I say the names
Breonna left a stain, and there's Floyd and McLain.
Let me hear you say the names, say the names,
Say the names! of the ones that were slain, so they don't die in vain
Generation after generation barely in the
Conversation, my ancestors built a nation that has no appreciation
I kneel on the field you put me on the blacklist,
Your knee on my neck that's how you get the black fist!
Changing laws is cool and all but it leads to repression,
Of the hatred for my people that turns into aggression.
A fight with rubber-bullets, it only tears us apart,
But we will win this war, when you change your heart.
As I'm washing all the blood that spilled across the cold tile floor,
I try to catch my breath with my
Back pressed against the bathroom door,
And I want to scream so someone hears but then I think what for,
Cause I'm the only one that can fight, in my own Civil War.
I try to catch my breath with my
Back pressed against the bathroom door,
And I want to scream so someone hears but then I think what for,
Cause I'm the only one that can fight, in my own Civil War.
2012 I was just a kid,
Who lived up the street from Trayvon the same day that he got killed,
Hoodie and skittles were recovered from the
Scene, scariest thing is both of us was seventeen,
Rewind 400 years, captive on a slave-ship,
Fast forward to now, still dealing with the same st!
Trying to survive while making words rhyme,
In the land of the free, but freedom is a blurred line,
Half a million in prison, half a million that's missing,
All those fathers and sons, take a second sit back and listen,
They sent your daddy up the road,
He in the chain-gang.
Call it slavery call it prison it's the same thing.
When police brutality becomes reality,
Then I'm the casualty of technicality,
Living with this insanity is my fking tragedy.
I'm on this road alone I'm fighting for my family
As I'm washing all the blood that spilled across the cold tile floor,
I try to catch my breath with my
Back pressed against the bathroom door,
And I want to scream so someone hears but then I think what for,
Cause I'm the only one that can fight, in my own Civil War.
With all the change that we've been fighting for,
We've been here before. Steady moving forward, we won't be ignored,
For you to change your heart and mind is what we're asking for,
Our fight is with the system it's so fked up at its core!
I relive the pain every time I say the names
Breonna left a stain, and there's Floyd and McLain.
Let me hear you say the names, say the names,
Say the names! of the ones that were slain, so they don't die in vain
Generation after generation barely in the
Conversation, my ancestors built a nation that has no appreciation
I kneel on the field you put me on the blacklist,
Your knee on my neck that's how you get the black fist!
Changing laws is cool and all but it leads to repression,
Of the hatred for my people that turns into aggression.
A fight with rubber-bullets, it only tears us apart,
But we will win this war, when you change your heart.
As I'm washing all the blood that spilled across the cold tile floor,
I try to catch my breath with my
Back pressed against the bathroom door,
And I want to scream so someone hears but then I think what for,
Cause I'm the only one that can fight, in my own Civil War.
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Mathis, Jessica Miller, Volkan Canbolat
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