Life's On The Line
QUESE
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And back in the jungle when the natives got restless They would call it gorilla attack And they would never describe That the folks finally got wise And decided that they would fight back, fight back, fight back fight back We tired man Tired of being sick and tired Uh Cops is shooting us Jails recruiting us Sometimes I feel like I'm in The land of lucifer so I pray to God to Cover us Under the Blood of Jesus Cause the way this country treats us is so egregious And I need all the help I can get when battling this oppression Feel like they wanna force my people to a deep depression Dead bodies of color on the news to teach us a lesson And yet they want us to bottle up all of this aggression I'm stressing Contemplating on a new Smith and Wesson Cause bullets to the back is the way they like to send a message So I must reciprocate it Don't give a f*ck if I'm vilified for this mindset This is something they instigated and started Way back when they shackled us and departed From the western shores of Africa, packed us up like some sardines Soul surfing over bones of the unwilling, screaming gnarly And to think this a policemen's favorite story Will I ever be safe Nah This shit was built on our backs Yet and still we constantly get attacked Damn I've come to terms with the fact That my life's on the line all the time as a black man Yeah That's why I gotta stay strapped fam We keep dying so now it's time to fight back Man Ohh Cause they'll never understand That my life's on the line all the time as a black man Uh, Yeah As a black man I was taught that it was ok to follow my dreams and Be able to get to the money through many streams as Long as I stay off of the radar of the police But it seems like that's impossible When they focused on stopping you from progressing into your next phase of life Because the color of your skin that's just they way of life Cause the people they represent resent us because they can't be us, All lives Matter don't see color Now they can't see us But get upset because they can't flee us Man yall be killing me All we wanted was peace and tranquility But I guess our presence just a threat your comfortability So now I'm gaining clarity I realize that your mere presence is a threat to the prosperity Of me and my people So it's time to get even Don't care to be equal We want liberation And only then we could Bring in the good And get rid of the evil Yeah Yeah This shit was built on our backs Yet and still we constantly get attacked Damn I've come to terms with the fact That my life's on the line all the time as a black man Yeah That's why I gotta stay strapped fam We keep dying so now it's time to fight back Man Ohh Cause they'll never understand That my life's on the line all the time as a black man Truth of the matter is We tired of being exemplified As helpless on the news while they bombard us with lies Of us, being the sole orchestrators of our demise When in fact they kill us for sport Like our soul is a prize The tree of our maltreatment is compartmentalized Into genocide, poverty and the stripping of pride To coincide with the opportunities that we're deprived of Leaving a large chunk of us Institutionalized Cause they left us no other choice But to try to survive by any means Get out of jail Now you can't vote against The very things that's detrimental to us as a whole That's why when it comes to polls it seems like we all missed a deadline Systematic slyness leaves us victim to a redline They use the census and the map to say who and who not to fund Lack of resources makes for unequal health and academic experiences Shit they done took the cake and gave us crumbs Plus they use the same maps to decide on which neighborhoods to deploy them boys Go ahead officer go and have yo fun All that built up hate and animosity towards my people Leads you to let off steam from the barrel of yo gun Y'all provoke us Choke Us Maim Us Frame Us Destroy our communities then you blame us Slave Patrol so heinous Soldiers of a system made to control us We'll see if y'all standing when the Revolution is over And we just getting started This shit was built on our backs Yet and still we constantly get attacked Damn I've come to terms with the fact That my life's on the line all the time as a black man Yeah That's why I gotta stay strapped fam We keep dying so now it's time to fight back Man Ohh Cause they'll never understand That my life's on the line all the time as a black man
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