[Verse 1: Neak]
Pour liquor
Ghetto ritual lord fix us
Another gone, another weapon is formed against us
Prospered, scene so unforgettable, Oscar
Screenplay Diallo or G. Floyd, we monsters
Labeled, affirmation “I’m a king” to feel able
So many brothers by design grow & be an Abel
Boys in blue follow suit and shoot up the same table
Boys on blocks crooked cops, what’s the difference? Only portrayal
All demonic in all depictions
Same momma sang with the same pain when she miss em
Sane momma sane no more lost in afflictions
Couldn’t take thе heat but she still sat within the kitchеn
Lost between “why blacks a kill blacks” and “our lives matter”
I’m only ready to ride out when it’s from the latter
I’m going bout my day smooth when it’s the former rather
It’s when they kill us the only time when it really mattered
[Chorus: Peter Jericho]
We want change, but who gone change us?
Pray for somebody else's God to save us
Stuck inside this crazy matrix
Keep playing the hand that’s dealt against us
But if you love me my brother, if you trust me my sister
We’re gonna have to find a way out
[Verse 2: Neak]
No between in this, life is like 3er fifths
Pain level high, when the pain parlay with stewardess
Peace never seen, with no origin for a Buddhist it’s
Peace only seen when you pull it to settle Judas shi…
Whether Cochise killer, Stone, or police
Bury me a G when retired from life Sho-reef (shareef)
Skin-deep, hatred feel Easy, Mo-Be
Slowly, my God fill our ghettos with the Foley’s
Own kind, no matter color they come in I call em one-time
No matter what my perception of me, I’m hoodlum
My experience form prison, hate black, love black, kill me, show love, the dualism
Reincarnate itself and centered as self-hatred
When they kill us, our reply is “we kill us”, outrageous
That we turn on us when they kill us, and same time, when we gone stop to not kill us, uh huh uh
[Chorus: Peter Jericho]
This feels like a formula
We catch it on camera
Whether or not we resist, comply
It’s clear that it don't matter (in America)
Oh great faithful we are
I don’t feel like a chosen one
My life could get took any day
My skin color makes me afraid
[Excerpt]
During the week we’ve recently spent in the city, ten people were killed in shooting incidents and 88 were wounded
[Excerpt]
We have a challenge right now, specifically, but not limited to, the south side and west side, where we have a level of shooting and a level of gun violence that’s unacceptable and must come to an end
[Excerpt]
We have seen so much brutality around this country, videos circulate everyday, videos from our police department, videos from around the country
This is not something we’re gonna stand for, and we’re so tired of marching and protesting (in America)
[Verse 3: Neak]
Don’t care who pull the trigger muthafucka stop it
Don’t care who kill the children all this violence is nonsense
Lives taken, life’s short, I pray for souls falling in our marchin’ but silent when it’s from our own dead honest
Like I’m blind like young Ray
No vision for the AK spraying at young Tre
No pressure from my internet fingers with black killers kill black niggas law enforcement go and kill em now it’s on nigga
On and on, on, the anger Baduism
Clap with steel wrong indicted and go to prison
Trauma to heal from is rooted never risen
Like when master beat the slave and the other slaves listened
Other slaves ran away and others wasn’t ditching
So in short now we can’t decide really who to kill quicker
Black on black or black on blue
It’s all bad clap on back or think things through
It’s a war going outside no man is safe from
But it’s sad cause being black it’s anyone
Yo, it’s anyone
It’s sad cause being black it’s anyone
[Chorus: Peter Jericho]
Do you feel my pain? (do you)
My sunshine turned to rain (do you)
We want change but who’s gone change us?
Pray for somebody else’s God to save us
But we won’t love one another
Tell me do we trust one another (I’ve been so afraid)
We want change but who’s gone change us?
Pray for somebody else’s God to save us
Stuck inside this crazy matrix now (in America)
[Outro]
Whether it’s black on black or black on blue
You’re causing me pain
