Frederick Douglass Said it (feat. Speech & 1 Love)
Arrested Development
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Yeah The biggest deception is that people do not care Be aware we are here The despair that you fear We're prepared to prepare you We're here just to share with you The traps that are ensnaring you The unknowns that's scaring you Our purpose is not surface It is deep and it is urgent We can see that you are hurting Try to cut through like a surgeon But our scalpel is not sharp enough Our lasso is not far enough We wrestle with devils the ones out and the ones inside of us Scarring us Each gun shot that rings out is jarring us We still remember the days white people feathered and tarring us Days when even the laws said it's just them and not an us Since then we've been on the backs of buses when there's not a bus Frustrations will even make a Christian man learn how to cuss Poverty in our spirits so like squirrels we just gotta nut Men become like wedgies Steady going in and out of butts Women become possessed with all the demons coming from out of us And it's real The battles never been more realer We've been partying and dancing so long But the war's still going on The war's still going on War's still going on uh huh Pick up your sword now Frederick Douglass Said it Its easier to build Strong children Than it is to repair Broken men The mountains so high we wonder where to begin The White man's happiness cannot be won By the Black man's misery cause all us are one I thought we done learned this from past things that's done African is where every race comes from There's a race to be run Africa's my origin but that home I've never known Only what I've read myself Only what I'm told and shown I guess that's why my mind roam lately I've been so sedated Guess that's how I cope with my history being annihilated This is what I bring to the team Passion, purp and leadership Every forty-eight hours we snitch when we should plead the fifth See that white girl take a sniff See that white horse, need a lift Cocaine never been my thang But that Mary Jane, we can burn a spliff When I see the law I turn and dip This ish is like a habit now I'm mashin out We don't need no racist cop to pat us down No Crip or blood just camouflage My daddy was in Vietnam Some were taught to kill themselves I was trained for my race to run Frederick Douglass Said it It's easier to build Strong children Than it is To repair Broken men The mountains so high we wonder where to begin The White man's happiness cannot be won By the Black man's misery cause all us are one I thought we done learned this from past things that's done African is where every race comes from There's a race to be run
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