Stolen Dreams
JustiKe
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Who understand us They still wanna brand us Who got the answers Probably not you tell real shady stand up Tell you pull your pants up Still shoot when our hands up It's even on camera What more do you need, don't want us to think but loving our dance huh Giving rubber band love Who understands me tryna be what they can't be Chill under canopies Weather my storms then hop on the phantom breeze Tryna travel the seven seas before my decade three I feel I'm lucky to make it past seventeen Daddy he lectured me all through my life, hoping I'd shine my light Cause boys like us have it dimmed before their time They been out here clipping wings It's really a wicked thing Flipping George Washington with double sided head All the odds stacked up unevenly I still believe in we I still believe me Sheesh is that all we need though Now we've got bigot figured they creeping into the White House Freddy Krueger imp'n on shoulders putting the lights out Open eyes up no you can't sleep tonight y'all They stealing dreams and will have your souls by the nightfall Have your would by the nightfall They may have your soul by the nightfall They stealing the dreams and may have your soul by the nightfall Look I'm not your negro thug nigga, criminal half wit Nor your inferior boy, I'll tell you exactly what I am I'm a man brother son, descendant of Bahamians Human being foremost, although black's what you detect right And that's fine, but you can't tell me you don't see an animal in my eyes Even before you allow, my character to truly shine Pass me prejudice, based on the stereotypes I roll the dice, hoping for sevens Damn I end up wit nines Momma told me when we walk thru stores, keep your hand in your pocket Not cause if you break you buy it But when the young black man walk on the scene They get to awkwardly watching If I'm being honest It's been a struggle for me to decipher logic behind this interesting means to an end But I'm sure they feel safe pleading self defense quietly making me prey This the treatment that make my folks fall to their knees on each day Sending kites to the Lord, hoping neither my brothers or my life goes to waste But I suppose that we're still here by way of this amazing grace Now we've got bigot figured they creeping into the White House Freddy Krueger imp'n on shoulders putting the lights out Open eyes up no you can't sleep tonight y'all They stealing dreams and will have your souls by the nightfall Have your would by the nightfall They may have your soul by the nightfall They stealing the dreams and may have your soul by the nightfall How 50 plus years after the death of young Emmett Till did we lose a Trayvon for no cause While no justice was being served in the judicial courts They had the nerve to acquit the murderer of an innocent young boy Just on his way home from the store With no gun in hand, knife in pocket or even hate in his words Influenced by no substances In their right minds both parties were But a jury of his peers let Zimmerman slip through the crack From decision no turning back cause double jeopardy had killed all that The movement for civil rights is never ending Equality for all it still remains to be pending Who would've thought between humans that this pigment could create so much distance Your ethnicity has no significance And culture was only developed through geographical positioning Had Gondwana and Laurasia remained Pangaea How would we label the human race specifically They don't really care about us They don't really care about us We gone have to care for ourselves Now we've got bigot figured they creeping into the White House Freddy Krueger imp'n on shoulders putting the lights out Open eyes up no you can't sleep tonight y'all They stealing dreams and will have your souls by the nightfall Have your would by the nightfall They may have your soul by the nightfall They stealing the dreams and may have your soul by the nightfall
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