Cruel Reality
iam.Daniel J
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I know the feeling being labeled as different Just from the color of my skin I been faced with the prison They all don't like us, they'll say that it's the way that we act But if we all being honest it's the fact that we black Tell me why you taking all my brothers and you playin hangman Yeah, they both black but they ain't the same man If we hung you from a tree you still wouldn't feel how we feel We bleed the same blood, tell me why you let it spill You got some people protesting, just because it's trending Then you got the one's trying to start some new beginnings Nothing gone change no matter how much you cry Sad but it's true, and this the reason why Because the system full of hate, don't wanna see us alive They rather see us in the street they want us dead not alive I know some people fighting for us got sent to the other side So I'm praying for ya family and all the tears that they cried For my people I forever speak out If you my people ima stand for you without a doubt For all my brothers and my sisters ima hand reaching out I'm here to pick you up if they ever knocking you down I'm black so if I speak are you gone take me away I gotta daughter, I'm trying to raise her in the safest of ways Her daddy seen homicides Her mama seen murder She can't be in the cycle so I gotta break the circle I'm not a rapper, I'm an artist, now I'm speakin as an activist I'm trying to paint this picture while you sit back like a pacifist They make us feel like violence is the only way out Now listen very closely to the words from my mouth You kill one now what's next Apple not to far from the apple tree You treat us like a dog tag you just gotta retrieve It's real life Call of Duty Watchin out for oops Oops being cops and they setting up shop All my youngins listen up, I'm finna teach you a lesson When we hold our fist up I think they see Smith & Wesson Ya skin tone is a weapon We holdin this much aggression How you expect us to act with 400 years of oppression It's a lot of people lost and they seekin direction But I'm here to be a compass, hopefully ima blessin My mama told me I'm destined My granny knows that I'm destined So until I see a difference it ain't no need for me restin I'm Daniel J For my people I forever speak out If you my people ima stand for you without a doubt For all my brothers and my sisters ima hand reaching out I'm here to pick you up if they ever knocking you down For my people I forever speak out If you my people ima stand for you without a doubt For all my brothers and my sisters ima hand reaching out I'm here to pick you up if they ever knocking you down I can't breath You can't breath We can't breath Let us go You pose to protect, but trying to kill us on the low Trying to take us from our families, we got children to raise We ain't see the best but they gone see better days And I know it ain't all of em, some cops they doing what's right But the ones doing wrong they dark gone come to the light We all out here taking chances, no surrender no retreat It's been a hot summer don't make us turn up the heat Cuz the cycle gone go on and on and on And on and on and on and it won't stop Take another life and look at the camera like they retarded How you play victim to a game that you started Because the system full of hate, don't wanna see us alive They rather see us in the street they want us dead not alive I know some people fighting for us got sent to the other side So I'm praying for ya family and all the tears that they cried All my people stand up
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