Understand Me (Look Back)
Yeah...
We peacefully protest
They said shut up
But forgot, they had a riot
To get haircuts
If all lives mattered
Then black lives would
Yeah...
Then black lives should
I'm just nothing like you think I am
They may never understand
The path I had to take
Let alone the choices I will make
When I take the time to think and I look back
Everything I went through had an impact
Had to go through the fire to become gold
All the pressure made diamonds from black coal
Yo, 2020 got me scared to sleep
I think I heard a loud bang
So I grab the heat
Cock back cause I think somebody lost their mind
To find out that my girl got hit eight times
They had the wrong house
The guy was caught
They hid evidence
They bent but they not at fault?
We tried to take a knee,
But that got checked
And then George Floyd
Died with one on his neck
We can't jog, or walk back home
And we still getting gunned down by our own
And then we got a pandemic adding the stress
We frontline, underlying, with no access
To healthcare, so let me bring you up to speed
I think they don't know with what we really need
We don't need to have a sign painted in the streets
I'll make it plain. Justice, Equality
I'm done
I'm just nothing like you think I am
They may never understand
The path I had to take
Let alone the choices I will make
When I take the time to think and I look back
Everything I went through had an impact
Had to go through the fire to become gold
All the pressure made diamonds from black coal
Yeah,
What am I? A young king but I'm unidentified
By the country and the people that you find
Living in it and my hood is gentried
I mean literally I watched my
Neighbors change (Who are you?)
The cops slowed up maybe they at the range
Perfecting aim for all the other names
Who don't wanna hustle for a little change
They want the big bucks, big rims, big trucks
Might buy a tesla I heard the stocks up
Never forget, a nickel can lie a lot
Put his face on the money but yet we filled the pot
Outta our pockets, the labor came off the top
Like a freestyle I'm hoping you get the plot
I mean for us I need focus
I really never worried bout
Who the new POTUS
I'm just nothing like you think I am
They may never understand
The path I had to take
Let alone the choices I will make
When I take the time to think and I look back
Everything I went through had an impact
Had to go through the fire to become gold
All the pressure made diamonds from black coal
We peacefully protest
They said shut up
But forgot, they had a riot
To get haircuts
If all lives mattered
Then black lives would
Yeah...
Then black lives should
I'm just nothing like you think I am
They may never understand
The path I had to take
Let alone the choices I will make
When I take the time to think and I look back
Everything I went through had an impact
Had to go through the fire to become gold
All the pressure made diamonds from black coal
Yo, 2020 got me scared to sleep
I think I heard a loud bang
So I grab the heat
Cock back cause I think somebody lost their mind
To find out that my girl got hit eight times
They had the wrong house
The guy was caught
They hid evidence
They bent but they not at fault?
We tried to take a knee,
But that got checked
And then George Floyd
Died with one on his neck
We can't jog, or walk back home
And we still getting gunned down by our own
And then we got a pandemic adding the stress
We frontline, underlying, with no access
To healthcare, so let me bring you up to speed
I think they don't know with what we really need
We don't need to have a sign painted in the streets
I'll make it plain. Justice, Equality
I'm done
I'm just nothing like you think I am
They may never understand
The path I had to take
Let alone the choices I will make
When I take the time to think and I look back
Everything I went through had an impact
Had to go through the fire to become gold
All the pressure made diamonds from black coal
Yeah,
What am I? A young king but I'm unidentified
By the country and the people that you find
Living in it and my hood is gentried
I mean literally I watched my
Neighbors change (Who are you?)
The cops slowed up maybe they at the range
Perfecting aim for all the other names
Who don't wanna hustle for a little change
They want the big bucks, big rims, big trucks
Might buy a tesla I heard the stocks up
Never forget, a nickel can lie a lot
Put his face on the money but yet we filled the pot
Outta our pockets, the labor came off the top
Like a freestyle I'm hoping you get the plot
I mean for us I need focus
I really never worried bout
Who the new POTUS
I'm just nothing like you think I am
They may never understand
The path I had to take
Let alone the choices I will make
When I take the time to think and I look back
Everything I went through had an impact
Had to go through the fire to become gold
All the pressure made diamonds from black coal
Credits
Writer(s): Anthony Bernard Stewart Jr, Simeon Jenkins, Lazy Beats
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