Tired

Respect the kid Poppin' like crepitus "I can't breathe" won't get 'em off us Remodeled to pessimists A product of Baptist hymnals And African Methodist Doxology So it's hard to be Thought of as less than Gifts of God A lotta people got nothing After you strip facades Fix my hand in a fist And lift it perpendicular Sometimes I think I'm wasting muscle Tryna lift the bar And I still feel my afflictions When the liquor's hard Cuz every nigga knows a Nigga with a different charge Ones who took the plea Cuz likelihood of an acquittal's marred By risk of spendin' Too much life in prison When statistics chart Progress since the 60s 60 years out Still the system's flawed Quick to call us black and angry, Say we actin strangely Caught on video Displayed how their compassion's gangrene Trained to aim at our frames And then react to mainstream We all exhausted but still pushing for the path to Change Things I surrender all I surrender all How can we be offenders But defenseless, y'all? Most likely to end up in trenches From a senseless call Feels like the only time we count is for the census Officer, my hands are up don't shoot I really hope I make it home to sleep tonight Don't you? So won't you break the cycle? Instead giving in to hate Suspended pay, the price goes Up with every body that falls that's not y'all's We gettin' tired People get disgusted with The things they see recorded And they should But we grow up knowing We born into distorted odds Fighting lies that say our DNA was sorted poorly God Is on our side Even when it seems like He ignores, forgot We out here Courage can exist amidst our doubts, feas Getting justice been a game of cat and mouse For years Yeah But we ain't backin' down It's time to swing this crap around Because my seeds are black and brown What's the reason street's disciples Labeled by your biased sight Thrown into to cycles Where their lives ain't worth their rights Or their survival? Suffocate us Shoot us 'til we lifeless with no vitals Being a Black American Is bound to drive me psycho They'd use that excuse To justify it on the news Tell y'all my SSRI dose Wasn't adjusted right And choose A picture of me lookin' nuts By being snuffed, your life improved The things that keep us up at night Are ugly, trife, and cruel I surrender all I surrender all How can we be offenders But defenseless, y'all? Most likely to end up in trenches From a senseless call Feels like the only time we count is for the census Officer, my hands are up don't shoot I really hope I make it home to sleep tonight Don't you? So won't you break the cycle? Instead giving in to hate Suspended pay, the price goes Up with every body that falls that's not y'all's We gettin' tired