Listen Up
Oboise
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To infinity and beyond now, that's how I count my blessings If you focus on yourself, they gonna tell you that you're selfish Scared of others thinking that you still amount to nothing So you Snapchat your wins so they can know that you're finessing Meanwhile there's people out in counties getting nothing Many races still dying out because of suffering I know you see the damage, look away and say nothing I wonder how you sleep at night and get up every morning. Yeah Listen Up Listen up I know there's people saying that I'm still on my soft ishhh Pray for us Amen Did Martin Luther die just so we could lose our crowns To see our blood shed and painted all around the town My people never settled cuz they running all around I have to see my people chased by the cops and gunned down Click clack bang. When he's gone he can't be brought back We die by the pistol or we die from fear attacks The cop was fearing for his life but shot a brother in the back And he was shot 20 times cuz they knew that he was black Kill us in the day and then they kill us in the dark We were minding our business till the protest to react And all lives matter was a protest to ours And white lives matter was a protest too far Feeling like I'm Moses shouting let my people go Address the situation just to let the people know Pave a better way so we can see the little grow Yo, I love my brother INI and I'm praying that be blows Rest in peace the rappers who didn't make it to the end X was lifeless in the car and smoke was shot up till he bled We're either taken by the streets or we're taken by the feds So when I go and meet the lord, I pray you bury me in red Listen Up Listen up They used to take me for a fool until I said I had enough Till I said I had enough Yesterday, I learned to turn my 6 into a 9 So whatever situation, I just flip it upside down And all the battles ever won, are won all overnight So now I gotta make sure I never have to kiss the ground I've been jumping over obstacles. I know I'm meant to touch the sky If you keep quiet, we lose our mind before you testify And your testimony helps the people to decide It could separate the right and leave the wrong to the side But when it comes to me, I never let the wrong decide So they tell me that I'm cocky and I'm filling up with pride I gotta brush it off and tell myself that it's fine Cuz if they get in my head, they'll be ahead all the time They'll be on top all the time And I'll be stressed all the time Cuz I'll be pissed and I wouldn't be at peace all the time Cuz I'll probably be in pieces They say I'm never there whenever they need me I move in certain ways. They say I'm way over my head I'm working all the time, I barely get to eat the bread Now they begging for some food they never checked if I was fed But I'm not petty like the rest, I never wanna see you dead Scrolling through my twitter in the hopes of feeling better I've been breaking all the pieces just to put them back together Stop begging for reward it you didn't put the effort Don't expect to be a diamond if you didn't go through pressure If you're a sucker to the world, you let the people deceive you If you let your guard down, you let the people defeat you I'm just speaking from experience even though I don't need to I'm looking forward to my sleep. I know everything's peaceful If I ever have a dream, I pray you never wake me up Cuz in the real world, everything is messing up You used to take me for a fool until I said I had enough You broke that pinkie promise, now I don't know how to trust I need a helping hand so I'm begging for some guidance They've been tipping all the scales now I'm begging for some balance Used to have a lot of questions, always begging for some answers Now I'm begging for some silence
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