Breathless (feat. Demetri, Damani, Briana Ebony & Anna D'anae)

What we've been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate Disarm and not kill white people everyday So what's going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country Or we will restructure their function and ours Stolen from home, they took all our rights Brought to the unknown with fear in our eyes Runaway slaves, beaten and hanged Stereotyping, demeaning and cheating our people will this ever change? They don't know, they don't know about the struggles that we face How "the Man" holds us back and ties our feet when tryna race Bad enough, bad enough we fight each other everyday Don't excuse how officers are pulling guns up off they waist People getting killed everytime I come around here Innocent or not; kill us off till we not here I fear for my life in this justiceless system I hope that they hear What did I do; What did I do? I ain't do nothing, I am who I am Jumping through hoops, jumping hoops, this how I feel as an African man My people dying everywhere, they don't seem to care; I'm mad Why must we be the victims this ain't right this ain't fair; It's so sad They pull guns, they draw blood, they gettin' way too reckless You can't hide from our eyes, you shoot when we're defenseless The victim's mother's sobbing, the justice system's fallin We'll fight until we're breathless, fight for our equal justice Too much on my mind, my head keeps spinning I'm just tryna stay afloat bruh Hoping that these feelings gon' subside, submerge, pain got me choked up He said he can't breathe, review your knee, you got it placed on his throat bruh Pardon my paranoia but it feel like every time these bullets fly that they chose us You see this pain, it know me well Freedom reign when them cops try to ring your bell They killing blacks in the streets and behind them cells From Sean, to Oscar, to Trayvon and probably more This is why I never chose to play cops and robbers, brothers dying every week Can we stop the nonsense please? I never thought that I could feel this greif black skin in the soil we've been rolling in the deep Feel it in my roots, we all want peace but why you keep raising your piece? Open your mind and release, the world ain't as big as you think I see the sky as the day go by, talking to God like Man when the reign gon' stop Hoping tomorrow gon' be different in a day of God Let in your light, shine through as we pray oh God like Amen My people dying everywhere, they don't seem to care; I'm mad Why must we be the victims this ain't right this ain't fair; It's so sad They pull guns, they draw blood, they gettin' way too reckless You can't hide from our eyes, you shoot when we're defenseless The victim's mother's sobbing, the justice system's fallin We'll fight until we're breathless, fight for our equal justice January 1st, 2009, that B.A.R.T policeman ain't do no time It was inhuman so I'll go on a rant About the cold blooded murder of Oscar Grant Three years went by we down in Sanford, a family's life has been dismantled Trayvon's gone but Zimmerman walks, when everybody knows that he took the shot Killer cops getting off cuz of lopsided juries, just skittles and iced tea in the the hoodie He left him dead, left him dead on the ground Like Ferguson Missouri and they killing Michael Brown Police is a legalized racist Klan, hiding, from the murders like Sandra Bland And in New York them cops is cold Eric Garner was killed by the Po Po's Choke hold I've had enough; I'm sick of it all, if I was in trouble then who the hell do I call Police might shoot me for yelling help Done with 5'0 I'm by myself You say you cop, but viewed as killer when you see black you just pullin' the trigger Killer cops getting off cuz of what the courts said Rewriting' the laws this the opposite of justice They pull guns, they draw blood, they getting way too reckless You can't hide from our eyes, you shoot when we're defenseless The victim's mother's sobbing; the justice system's fallin We'll fight until we're breathless, for equal justice Go now Let my people go