Mental Revolution
Matt Betts
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Growing up I came up separate from the streets Pops would drive for bread, stacking chips is how we'd eat Momma watched her babies, kept them cool and out the heat And every night when shells would burn if try to get some sleep Sirens in the distance not the ones that sing a song But you hear them so much almost have you singing along Hot up in the streets, hotter in the kitchen Wake up to the smell of pancakes, the bacon sizzlin' Prison bound assumed by the other side Listen how I speak like the others I A child of the double conscious mind Spit a parallel 16 when I write a rhyme Born of those chasing freedom and working overtime Speaking for those who can't, voices unified Wake up the whole world with one line "This the Revolution will not be televised" The Revolution won't be televised This Mental Revolution will not be televised The blood of civil rights leaders is running through my veins So I can't sit back and watch my people end up in chains Used to be physical, now it's more of a mental game Went from cotton fields, to the capital were it still remains All 2020 I watched my Black people getting hunted You must be tripping if you thought I wasn't saying something Wish Breonna Taylor's case wasn't what I expected from it Check your history, you'll see a pattern of these acquittals coming Check Rodney King, Eric Garner, Terence Crutcher Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland and many others It's wild to me how people don't see the problem here "All he had to do was listen", Philando Castile Change only happens when you fix yourself first Readjust your mindset, prepare to put in work I love all people, but do they love me Cause that's the thought that crosses my mind when I see police The Revolution will not be televised Naw, this Mental Revolution will not be televised I yearn for a time in which what's going on won't reference "What's Going On" written by Marvin Yet portions of White America still say, "You know, I don't think that officer had any other option" Or worse, they sit in silence because "if it doesn't affect me, not my problem" Which is funny for a people who have spent history, liberating others through wars Yet, still can't fix its own problems within its own doors Again I ask, do I walk as Malcolm or Martin? As I stare into the sky I decide, that truly, I should walk as me I don't wish to overthrow the government Because no matter who's in charge absolute power corrupts absolutely However, what I have come to realize is this Change must occur in the hearts and in the minds of the people Then, and only then, will we truly be free
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