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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
ARASMUS
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Arasmus Shaw
Songwriter
Lyrics
Arasmus speaking
They say we have the freedom of speech
They say we have the right to bear arms
What about the right to live in America while black. Can they put an ammendment in the constitution for that?
Hook x1
Why must you play on my ignorance
The rules were not made for my benefits
The details I know them so intimate
Stay silent to maintain my innocence
Been handcuffed and handled so vigorous
No cameras around and no witnesses
Why must you test what my limits is
Am I free to go if I'm innocent
I was 11 on my bed just sitting
Heard shot out window that rang in close distance
Layed on the floor cuz I learned that strays misses
One went through room and landed in the kitchen
One the rooms was over my mom's head
Thank God till this day she's shes here and not dead
Police showed up fake and shaking his head
Pick up the round never listen to what we said
That night it wasn't fear in my head
I slept on the floor and didn't sleep in the bed
Eventually all the gun shots become Normal
And the only time your scared is when the shots are for you
If that sounds like a problem to yall
Have you ever been cuffed without probable cause
Or wrongly detained by the law
Or given a phone call from.a phone that won't call
I have
Chicago IL it's many stories I can tell you from my path
Legal representation isn't something I had
Or many other youngins that was walking the same path
They say your innocent until proven guilty
But really your guilty until proven innocent
Without enough money to pay for bail
The whole time your innocent you sit in prisonment
Hook x1
Why must you play on my ignorance
The rules were not made for my benefits
The details I know them so intimate
Stay silent to maintain my innocence
Been handcuffed and handled so vigorous
No cameras around and no witnesses
Why must you test what my limits is
Am I free to go if I'm innocent
It's not fair in this country it's been known
It's been lopsided from slavery to Jim Crow
After slavery still shackled my kinfolk
And put us in position in the ghettos and still broke
Treyvon was pursued and murdered by a man without a badge
They say black lives matter we riot , but how long did it last
Mike brown surrendered
And was shot in plain sight online remember
He put his hands up
Like a man with a lisp and a stutter nobody understands us
Look at the cards they hand us
Athletes, celebrities they wanna fan us
I guess it's just popular demand huh
Nike, Adidas they just wanna brand us
I guess it's the new catle Prague
And sense we own nothing but these clothes we just chatted yall
Hypnotized by tv, turn the channel dog
The cell phones the addiction that we battle yall
Wr sheeple who can't come together as a people
Had a couple of black billionaires now we thinking that we equal
After Cosby and Diddy look the way they treat you
And use your own people just to beat you, it's beneath you
Hook x1
Why must you play on my ignorance
The rules were not made for my benefits
The details I know them so intimate
Stay silent to maintain my innocence
Been handcuffed and handled so vigorous
No cameras around and no witnesses
Why must you test what my limits is
Am I free to go if I'm innocent
Written by: Arasmus Shaw
