This is for my people
Shut down in this streets
This just how it be
When your skin black trust me
We gonn make it out this time
I know we gonn be alright
Put your middle fingers up in the sky
Shout justice for the ones
That we lost yeah
I got my hands up
Don’t shoot
Hoodie on trevon
Speak emit till they get the message of our song
I hear the wails of our people get louder on the news
Smoke a lot trees forgot about the nuse
Wrapped around our necks
Distracted we chasing checks
Talks with my og he taught me about respect
He told me put that on a man and you can conversate
Forget the colour of they’re skin their more ways we can relate
First we have to congregate
For a second forget our differences
My people been running
Don’t know how far the distance is
Trapped in environments
That teach us how to hate each other
Victim to the system
Casualty another brother
This is for my people
Shut down in this streets
This just how it be
When your skin black trust me
We gonn make it out this time
I know we gonn be alright
Put your middle fingers up in the sky
Shout justice for the ones
That we lost yeah
This is for my people
Shut down in this streets
This just how it be
When your skin black trust me
We gonn make it out this time
I know we gonn be alright
Put your middle fingers up in the sky
Shout justice for the ones
That we lost yeah
Systematic discrimination
Cause he a shade darker than me
They most likely to hate them
Most likely a suspect
Label him anything far from a saint
Give him the benefit of the doubt
I speak for george floyd
And family you’ve destroyed
I walk in fear you tell me I’m paranoid
Quick to colour me an enemy
It’s messing with my energy
Throwing off the inner me
It’s bothers me frequently
I start to think i’m going crazy
The system that screwed us denying it’s their baby
Too late to abort the damage is done
Pull out your iphone sing this song the same song like
This is for my people
Shut down in this streets
This just how it be
When your skin black trust me
We gonn make it out this time
I know we gonn be alright
Put your middle fingers up in the sky
Shout justice for the ones
That we lost yeah
This is for my people
Shut down in this streets
This just how it be
When your skin black trust me
We gonn make it out this time
I know we gonn be alright
Put your middle fingers up in the sky
Shout justice for the ones
That we lost yeah
What would it be like
If we could live in harmony
Will i see it in this life time
I want to know
What it would be like
If we all could live in harmony
Will i ever see it in this life time
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