Will There Ever Be Peace

My mom always used to fight for me
She tried to be
Both parents, but my family tree makes me wanna cry and weep
Grandpa probably used to fight blitzkrieg
I don't wanna see my ancestry
Bonhoeffer was an idol to me
Malcolm and Martin inspired me
Hope the past can give us sight to see
The world needs to change entirely
It was built on racism
School taught me about colonies barely mentioning slaves in it
Rap educated me more than the history courses
All they ever taught was French revolution from different sources
We need to correct
Errors that are deeply attached
To Western culture - original art displayed Jesus as black
Then they made everyone look white cause whites were feeling mismatched
Some even use the bible to defend slavery
God didn't end slavery
It took hundreds of years and countless deaths
And in 2020 some cops still wanna stop the breath
Of the brown and black

Pac said there will never be peace
Are we destined to grieve over loved ones left dead in the streets
It takes a second to see
We ain't doing well and we never may be
Are we destined to grieve
Indefinitely
Will there ever be justice, will there ever be peace?
Will there ever be a day where we all can stand together
Seems like dictators wanna fight over land forever

When Mike Brown's blood was getting shed
The justice department let their own folks run the trial, not cross examining
A cop who fired his gun at least ten times when he killed
An unarmed man with it
That's foul they let him off
Changed the regular procedure of the trial to let the killer walk
Still the cops
Don't get a charge
Police is still killing blacks
They seem to feel a thrill in that, get a gat, shoot and ask questions later
Step by step we fail and
Move steady to the lowest point like an escalator
MLK the third said not to only look at the ones who rage in darkness
But look at the ones who create the darkness
Back when
I worked at a hostel I was a coward, only half man
The cook outright said hey
So, what if Mike Brown was shot, he was a black man
I stared at him shocked at what he said then
But too scared to report him, fearing for my own job
That still puts me to shame I had to grow balls

Pac said there will never be peace
Are we destined to grieve over loved ones left dead in the streets
It takes a second to see
We ain't doing well and we never may be
Are we destined to grieve
Indefinitely
Will there ever be justice, will there ever be peace?
Will there ever be a day where we all can stand together
Seems like dictators wanna fight over land forever

I can't shut up anymore when someone crosses the nazi line
That's good trouble, I'll be fine
Some wanna dispute racism, that's some delirious shit
Whites have been privileged to never directly experience it
We need to let people eat in our country
People flee from war and try to reach our country
Then we make them feel like we better them cause we're rich in our country
We let the army shoot people at the European coast and feel pride
For claiming the Nobel Peace Prize
Bombs drop nonstop in foreign countries
While most of us sit at home watching
Power back to the people!
We need to educate ourselves so we don't act just as evil
People get punished and killed unjustly
At least watch when things get ugly
Fuck this war
Just move all the fucking troops back to Russian soil
It's lock and load if the goddamn war
Don't stop at our fuckin door
Putin lost his mind
Over greed, racism and hate
People need to take over his place

Pac said there will never be peace
Are we destined to grieve over loved ones left dead in the streets
It takes a second to see
We ain't doing well and we never may be
Are we destined to grieve
Indefinitely
Will there ever be justice, will there ever be peace?
Will there ever be a day where we all can stand together
Seems like dictators wanna fight over land forever