Corporations may define beauty to make yours a disease
Dusty chemicals and fooled mirrors will be prescribed to heal your broken appearance
Music will be tempered with buffoonery and youthful exuberance
Lyrics will mean nothing but a trap to trap you
Sell you chains that Malik Al Shabaz, Martin Luther King Jnr, Marcus, Tubman Nkrumah, Marley, Ali and others fought to free you from
You will be presented with a media box to tell you this is freedom
Freedom in its free form is not free fam
Young girls and boys will cover-up their insecurities with clothes and makeups
Your heroes will be Captain America, Iron Man and Super Man
You will be taught to think that home don't provide the music to your dance
You will be taught that formal education is your only balance
You are a tree, dying because you do not have any root
Corporations may define beauty to make yours a disease
Dusty chemicals and fooled mirrors will be prescribed to heal your broken appearance
Music will be tempered with buffoonery and youthful exuberance
Lyrics will mean nothing but a trap to trap you
Sell you chains that Malik Al Shabaz, Martin Luther King Jnr, Marcus, Tubman, Nkrumah, Marley, Ali and others fought to free you from
You will be presented with a media box to tell you this is freedom
Freedom in its free form is not free fam
Young girls and boys will cover-up their insecurities with clothes and makeups
Your heroes will be Captain America, Iron Man and Super Man
You will be taught to think that home don't provide the music to your dance
You will be taught that formal education is your only balance
You are a tree, dying because you do not have any root
You will have your head buried in a screen
So when your present is being stolen, you can't scream
For help will be considered as lame to those who call for it
Black lives matter will matter only in a America
Because when black brothers and sisters return home, other black brothers and sisters don't matter
So if you ask me what I want to be when I grow up
I will probably say "I want to be alive"
I wanna be woke
I want all the poems I write to be dope
I wanna be higher than those who smoke
Woke means aware
Being woke doesn't care about what you wear
It is about knowing who you are, not forgetting who you were
So when they come for you
Don't hide your light
Don't kill your songs at birth
Open your tuba lips but don't let them know on a low note
Let them know on the highest note
That, to the world, you are a constant reminder that life is beautiful
So if they ask you what you wanna be when you grow up
Just tell them
"We are woke , We are woke
Never going back to sleep again, Nope"
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Corporations may define beauty to make yours a disease
Dusty chemicals and fooled mirrors will be prescribed to heal your broken appearance
Music will be tempered with buffoonery and youthful exuberance
Lyrics will mean nothing but a trap to trap you
Sell you chains that Malik Al Shabaz, Martin Luther King Jnr, Marcus, Tubman Nkrumah, Marley, Ali and others fought to free you from
You will be presented with a media box to tell you this is freedom
Freedom in its free form is not free fam
Young girls and boys will cover-up their insecurities with clothes and makeups
Your heroes will be Captain America, Iron Man and Super Man
You will be taught to think that home don't provide the music to your dance
You will be taught that formal education is your only balance
You are a tree, dying because you do not have any root
Corporations may define beauty to make yours a disease
Dusty chemicals and fooled mirrors will be prescribed to heal your broken appearance
Music will be tempered with buffoonery and youthful exuberance
Lyrics will mean nothing but a trap to trap you
Sell you chains that Malik Al Shabaz, Martin Luther King Jnr, Marcus, Tubman, Nkrumah, Marley, Ali and others fought to free you from
You will be presented with a media box to tell you this is freedom
Freedom in its free form is not free fam
Young girls and boys will cover-up their insecurities with clothes and makeups
Your heroes will be Captain America, Iron Man and Super Man
You will be taught to think that home don't provide the music to your dance
You will be taught that formal education is your only balance
You are a tree, dying because you do not have any root
You will have your head buried in a screen
So when your present is being stolen, you can't scream
For help will be considered as lame to those who call for it
Black lives matter will matter only in a America
Because when black brothers and sisters return home, other black brothers and sisters don't matter
So if you ask me what I want to be when I grow up
I will probably say "I want to be alive"
I wanna be woke
I want all the poems I write to be dope
I wanna be higher than those who smoke
Woke means aware
Being woke doesn't care about what you wear
It is about knowing who you are, not forgetting who you were
So when they come for you
Don't hide your light
Don't kill your songs at birth
Open your tuba lips but don't let them know on a low note
Let them know on the highest note
That, to the world, you are a constant reminder that life is beautiful
So if they ask you what you wanna be when you grow up
Just tell them
"We are woke , We are woke
Never going back to sleep again, Nope"
Dusty chemicals and fooled mirrors will be prescribed to heal your broken appearance
Music will be tempered with buffoonery and youthful exuberance
Lyrics will mean nothing but a trap to trap you
Sell you chains that Malik Al Shabaz, Martin Luther King Jnr, Marcus, Tubman Nkrumah, Marley, Ali and others fought to free you from
You will be presented with a media box to tell you this is freedom
Freedom in its free form is not free fam
Young girls and boys will cover-up their insecurities with clothes and makeups
Your heroes will be Captain America, Iron Man and Super Man
You will be taught to think that home don't provide the music to your dance
You will be taught that formal education is your only balance
You are a tree, dying because you do not have any root
Corporations may define beauty to make yours a disease
Dusty chemicals and fooled mirrors will be prescribed to heal your broken appearance
Music will be tempered with buffoonery and youthful exuberance
Lyrics will mean nothing but a trap to trap you
Sell you chains that Malik Al Shabaz, Martin Luther King Jnr, Marcus, Tubman, Nkrumah, Marley, Ali and others fought to free you from
You will be presented with a media box to tell you this is freedom
Freedom in its free form is not free fam
Young girls and boys will cover-up their insecurities with clothes and makeups
Your heroes will be Captain America, Iron Man and Super Man
You will be taught to think that home don't provide the music to your dance
You will be taught that formal education is your only balance
You are a tree, dying because you do not have any root
You will have your head buried in a screen
So when your present is being stolen, you can't scream
For help will be considered as lame to those who call for it
Black lives matter will matter only in a America
Because when black brothers and sisters return home, other black brothers and sisters don't matter
So if you ask me what I want to be when I grow up
I will probably say "I want to be alive"
I wanna be woke
I want all the poems I write to be dope
I wanna be higher than those who smoke
Woke means aware
Being woke doesn't care about what you wear
It is about knowing who you are, not forgetting who you were
So when they come for you
Don't hide your light
Don't kill your songs at birth
Open your tuba lips but don't let them know on a low note
Let them know on the highest note
That, to the world, you are a constant reminder that life is beautiful
So if they ask you what you wanna be when you grow up
Just tell them
"We are woke , We are woke
Never going back to sleep again, Nope"
Writer: William Du Bois Kumi
Copyright: Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
Copyright: Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid