I Can't Breathe

Yo, sick of having to explain myself

They wanna know the history, the pain might help

They makin' me wild, need to restrain myself

If I were you, I would educate myself, oh no

They want me to hate myself

Degrade, dismiss and erase myself

They said Australia and America's not the same

I say David Dungay, they don't even know the name

That's bullshit

Write to your member, tell 'em what's happenin'

You gotta challenge the white settler narrative

Got a lot of books that call us nomadic savages

Maybe that's a connection to them attacking us

Government thinking up any other solution

The truth leads to treaty and revolution

Killers acquitted, your silence is killin'

Give us your platform so your people can miss it

First came the massacres, then came the mission

Then stole the children, then filled the prison

No wonder our people do not trust the system

Over 400, not one conviction, shame

No justice and no peace

They won't charge the police

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They both said, "I can't breathe"

No justice and no peace

They won't charge the police

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They both said, "I can't breathe"

He died when you choked him on his back in the pen

The five were some untrained angry men

So why are you surprised it was actually them?

And what would happen if there were no cameras then?

If you're white, come and vibe with your black fella friends

And write down the number of their badge with a pen

The value of a life we shouldn't have to defend

And saying sorry means it never happens again

Some of these cops musta been bullied in P.E.

They kill more, that's why Kaepernick took a knee

Donald Trump's callin' that a lack of respect

But what do you call a knee to the back of your neck, huh?

Th-this shit's as bad as it gets

'Cause some of these coppers really don't know how to protect

And it's legitimized, see they try to minimize genocide

No more Twitter fights, 'cause the revolution televised, yo

No justice and no peace

They won't charge the police

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They both said, "I can't breathe"

No justice and no peace

They won't charge the police

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They bring violence to my motherland then blame me for it

Then expect me to be silent and then thank you for it

I ain't thankful, they been killing my people by the masses

And I'm fed up to the neck by you right-wing fascists

I pull angle where my people feel anger, that's connection

We're angry for a reason, 'cause our babies need protectin'

I'm scared to send them out, 'cause their color is a weapon

When they walk through the streets, people somehow feel threatened

Just stop

We only want the system to be civilized

You televise your point of view then feed the sheeps full of lies

People have been defied when you set up all the missions

And you still cause divide killing my people in prisons

I'm sick of it, sick and tired of the thick of it

Picture it, walk in our shoes, get a sniff of it

You feelin' it?

Now you choose to show no respect about so called Australia

Get their knees off our neck

No justice and no peace

They won't charge the police

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They both said, "I can't breathe"

No justice and no peace

They won't charge the police

They both said, "I can't breathe"

They both said, "I can't breathe"