Sandra Bland
(Rest In Peace)
Trayvon Martin
(Rest In Peace)
Philando Castile
(Rest In Peace)
Tamir Rice
(Rest In Peace)
One day everything will be over
Uh
This for my people
(Yeah, yeah)
One of these days things will finally be different
Cause I'm still tryna imagine all the things that I have witnessed
From time of my first cry, I been on a hit list
But little did they know that I would grow up to be gifted
Steady tryna cure the things that they don't know is sickness
Running in they bloodline
Longside privilege
Telling you, the people tired of talking bout forgiveness
So we gotta riot so they see that we ain't kidding
Know they looking at what's going on
Like what's the difference
Bet that they would get it if it was one of their siblings
Screaming that they can't breathe lying on the pavement
Slowly dying
While the people screaming out for justice
But they ain't getting none, so they're left to be disgusted
That's just how it was, so they thought we'd get adjusted
But y'all supposed to be the ones that we knew we trusted
Reaching for protection, in return getting nothing
Then they wanna get mad when we cause a ruckus
Taring up the city cause we way past flustered
Tired of the many years that we have been hunted
Treated like some animals, they kill us by the hundreds
Tired of the target on my back, aim it elsewhere
And if you shoot
Then all we asking is you be fair
Protect the youth and stop killing the ones that's left here
Get off they neck and allow them to get some fresh air
Open yo eyes and see the pain that you have caused here
Look at all yo tactics
Look at how they cause fear
Look at how the tears cry
Look at all the despair
Look at how we made y'all
After being brought here
Everything we gave y'all
Acting like you don't care
We was tryna save y'all
We was getting cold stares
Filling up the graveyards
Just another soul there
Never thinking of the father figure that you stole there
Only thinking of yourself
Tell me what's the goal here
Thought that y'all was down
But I guess I shoulda known
Swear
Think you doing something
But it's really going nowhere
Stead we living everyday
In a steady warfare
Y'all was steady playing chess
We was playing four square
Everybody playing games till the day the board clear
Telling you, we ain't the same
And it's something more here
Gotta be the one to remind you of the score here
Lemme list'em out
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell, Eric Garner it never ends
Cause of you, we'll never know who they could've been
Good thing we got some memories beforehand
They say, so you don't fall for everything
You gotta stand
Move ya feet and march on to the promise land
So I'm screaming black power with my right hand
Steady hoping one day that it'll all end
Breonna Taylor
George Floyd
Ahmaud Arbery
Michael Brown
Eric Garner
It goes on
Black Lives Matter...