Light a Spark
Ihop Borders
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Damn, if it ain't one thing It's another I'm either being held back By my sick mind Or my skin color They call us spics, they don't see us as equal They work us for pennies It really is evil How you gonna brand an entire person illegal? That mindset proves they Don't even see us as people They're happy to use us for cheap labor But they sure wouldn't want one of us as a neighbor I know someone out there gonna call me a race baiter For making this song but f*ck them I'm tired of curving in my behavior And they tell me, don't mix Music and politics To you, this is political To me, this is just the reality I'm forced to live Our struggles are largely dismissed Often we not even allowed to be kids They make it a crime for us to even exist These are just a few of the reasons Why I'm raising my fist Trying to light a spark 'Cause I've been stuck in the dark Like practically My whole life The night surrounds me Gonna burn everything around me To make me my own light But all we got is each other So taking from my brother won't help make my load light Can anybody hear me? Speaking loudly and clearly I just wanna find some warmth in these cold nights F*ck the police, yeah I do really mean it Wanna know why? Take a look at the way that We're treated They murder us on the streets Don't act like you haven't seen it And get away with it time after time Until we're slowly defeated Or at least that's the way that we're feeling We've done a lot of hurting But barely any healing They tell us we can be anything now Trying to make the American Dream look so appealing But it's our women of color cleaning up after White women break through the glass ceiling And this shit has gone on way too long Can't live our lives this way, it feels so wrong Working 2 or 3 jobs just to keep the lights on From the womb to the tomb, we struggle our entire lives They keep promising things will get better after just one more sacrifice Living poor is constantly walking on the edge of a knife And these are just a few of the reasons why I keep up the fight Trying to light a spark 'Cause I've been stuck in the dark Like practically My whole life The night surrounds me Gonna burn everything around me To make me my own light But all we got is each other So taking from my brother won't help make my load light Can anybody hear me? Speaking loudly and clearly I just wanna find some warmth in these cold nights Oh, oh, oh I can't wait Until all my debts are paid And this junk food for thought that's on my plate Somehow turns into a big ol' steak Oh oh, oh, I can't wait Until all my debts are paid And this junk food for thought That's on my plate somehow turns into a hug ol' steak Trying to light a spark 'Cause I've been stuck in the dark Like practically My whole life The night surrounds me Gonna burn everything around me To make me my own light But all we got is each other So taking from my brother won't help make my load light Can anybody hear me? Speaking loudly and clearly I just wanna find some warmth in these cold nights Oh, oh, oh, I can't wait Until all my debts are paid And this junk food for thought that's on my plate Somehow turns into a big ol' steak
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