We're Tired of our Names Becoming Hashtags

People dying daily Saying I can't breath Because the cops on their necks And there yelling please People getting shot Saying don't shoot me please I got three kids at home And I take care of their needs America the home of the brave and the free Yet minority oppressed as far as the eyes can see I wish I could say different but there's nothing I can say I was born in this country and America's this way We're tired of our name becoming hashtags Because y'all people wanna dispose of us like dish rags We comply to your order yet you bang us up Then you decide to shot us and now we can't just get up Maybe not even shot us Y'all treat us like shooters Yet the real shooters that shot Can't even get shot at Y'all protect them with your life And a bullet vest Yet we walk down the street innocent and y'all just arrest Us trust in the system is what they say But I'm scared I'll get shot on any given day I see a cop and wanna run away like I am prey But I know wouldn't end well so I pray Y'all say we are innocent until proven guilty But y'all see my skin color as a weapon We don't do anything yet we still pay the penalty See my skin as ugly but I see it as a blessing People dying daily Saying I can't breath Because the cops on their neck And there yelling please People getting shot While saying don't shoot me please I got three kids at home And I take care of their needs America the home of the brave and the free Yet minority oppressed as far as the eyes can see I wish I could say different but there's nothing I can say I was born in this country and America's this way Black lives matter ACAB All lives matter Forget all that We're protesting to get equality And y'all can't even let us have this one little victory History MLK says A riot is the language of the unheard And we are that We riot cause they only listen when there is destruction And we're only doing this because of their obstruction Trying to function Had it out for us we were youngens Pipelining from school to jail like it was nothing Take up 12% of the population Yet make 60% of prisons and that is crazy George Floyd Breonna Taylor Micheal Lorenzo dean All killed at the hand of cops that " keep us free" All we are asking for is some justice please And not to have these murderers on paid leave People dying daily Saying I can't breath Because the cops on their necks And there yelling please People getting shot Saying don't shoot me please I got three kids at home And I take care of their needs America the home of the brave and the free Yet minority oppressed as far as the eyes can see I wish I could say different but there's nothing I can say I was born in this country and America's this way People dying daily Saying I can't breath Because the cops on their necks And there yelling please People getting shot Saying don't shoot me please I got three kids at home And I take care of their needs America the home of the brave and the free Yet minority oppressed as far as the eyes can see I wish I could say different but there's nothing I can say I was born in this country and America's this way