Complete Understatement

I'm from the 2020 riot, your crying don't matter at all, best best to stay quiet if you wasn't
Involved, simply do what we need to, we don't need any bluffs, fear the claws of the laws
That don't love us at all, fear the hatred, it don't matter if we're sacred, never had
A fair chance, was a mule in 40 acres, can you compensate our fear, genetic ptsd, if

A dollar for every tear, pockets never empty, fear turns to anger, anger turns to rage
All this pain snowballing, wish it would turn to rain, remove these fucking chains, give
My people back their names, the truth is our hope and dreams will never be the same, I guess
I'm singing the blues, always paying my dues, is it really fake news, I guess that's why

We confused, the same system that's corrupting our youth, poisoning food, poisoning schools
Use the media to turn us to tools, me against you, you against me, and you wonder why we so
Quick to shoot, so quick to loot, look my babies in the eyes, turn my back so they don't see me
Cry, wish I could but I ain't got the time to take some time, descendants of kings and queens

Sitting by the most high and yet my skin color's a crime, ain't nothing like the present, hope
The future carries blessings, I'm fighting for the sun, storm crashing, universal family living
Universal love, and big brother don't love us at all, can't find a way to evolve, the reality is
That we live here, the reality is that we live here, had to be the worst writer's block experience

Yet, can't find inspiration with your knee in my neck, when my brothers and sisters suffer I lose
Breath, it's hard to get it back like there ain't nothing left, gotta earn respect, gotta earn
The trust, you know, ain't no justice, you know, feeling guilty when I'm cooking for my babies
When there's mothers and fathers like us mourning their babies, complete understatement, saying it's

Crazy, when the genocide leaves us hazy, need all of us to rise, most of us ain't rising, hard to
Survive when they don't care about surviving, feel selfish when I make this shit personal, but I can't
Deny, I'm created from original, original blood, yeah the original mud, original railroad
Miss Harriet Tubbs, had to snap Turner, if we should've turned her, other chicken left these racist

Motherfuckers burners, I don't give a fuck what his past was, we gotta pass, the real is we gotta
Live here and make it pass, black boy lost, became a black boy family, in the middle of a cesspool
Pass it around, bad, bad police beat me, I was 14, my mama was too scared to say a thing
If you was watching from the comfort of quarantine, shit, keep watching, don't say a thing

The reality is that we live here
The reality is that we live here
The reality is that we live here
The reality is that we live here

The reality is that we live here