I Can't Breathe (Remix)
Intro:
[Z!EE]
Imagine we was birthed from our mother’s wombs
Only to die on the asphalt
Bullets unload from chambers
As money gets stashed in bank vaults
What is a black life worth?
On this Earth
In this time
That’s a question that we need to ask ourselves
As we reclaim our identity and our sense of self
See our history doesn’t begin with slavery
Though that’s what we’re taught in schools
Systemic is when they know the truth but choose to keep you fooled
So we can only look to ourselves to solve our problems
Cause we far from over
Chorus:
I can’t breathe
You’re taking my life away
Your foot on my neck
You’re taking my light away
I’m so tired
I’m so tired
...I’m so tired
X2
[Z!EE]
You can’t change a system that’s broken,
Organize that be the slogan,
If they give you a horse it’s a trojan
They they back to swarming you like locus
You get a few gains you lose focus
Think it’s a win back to acting atrocious
They deal with us in itty bitty doses
Thinkin it’s love just cause they gave you roses,
I ain’t lookin for no Moses
We got the power you ain’t get the notice
We really forgot freedom was the motive
Ever since we got stolen cross the ocean
Millions of black bodies floating
Fast forward in a pool of blood they soaking,
I ain’t really wit the hoping
Organization that’s what I’m promoting
Chorus: X2
[3D Na’Tee]
Yeah...
[I can’t…]
Get a break
Everyday another wake
At the hands of the jakes
Just a plan by the snakes
So we riot and debate
And we loot
And the news bring the crews to the views
To confuse me and you
Distractions
Like what about the black on black shit
Difference is they get arrested don’t try to fact switch
Don’t try to lump ‘em altogether
Remind me of the old days Trump called better
Like Emmet Till
Even Latasha Harlan
Yet they treat Dylan Roof like a darling
Swear shit’s appalling
Little Aiyana Jones shot in her apartment
Going on so long tired of all the marches
See what they did Martin?
Look what they did Fred
Shit’s so disheartening another leader dead
Forget trying to plead I’m a take the lead instead
Chorus:
[Z!EE]
Eh,
We out here looking respect
From folks who never gave a heck
Okay we got a few gains so what’s next
Turn your back on your folk that’s how we step?
Without unity what do we have left
A bunch of black folks who don’t know where to step
They got us wearing shoes made out of cement
And tell us it’s the new fashionable crepe
We done sat by and watched too long
Tired of hearing the same old song
Time to defend to our community
They not for you and me
They just creating more wrongs
I wanna see my youngins living long...er
Grow wise and get mentally strong...er
Time to rise to the occasion
They only purpose is to keep us un...der
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