Do you feel like you’re drowning

Walk around black in a world, trapped, feeling surrounded

Life’s mission hard as quicksand, trying to get out of it

Heart and soul like a pot of gold, do you feel like you found it

Feel like you’re grounded, no feeling doubt

Can’t get a smile, so image of frowning

With about 20 **** around, standing ‘round all my **** around me

Crew up, grew up in the same surroundings, **** wilding

Next door, they was dialing 911 when it’s getting violent you can hear the sirens, go

Something that now I know, either me or you gotta go

When they hit the block, when you hear the “pop,” **** is adios

Gotta be out of your mind, true

So how do you shine with all of that dark inside of you

Hoping better days will find you

(Hope you see a change come, ‘cause heaven won’t save us)

It’s like officer, officer what have you done

How many apples can spoil a bunch, you just need one

So if you can’t stand up with fellow officers

Shoot a kid with their hands up, I don’t know who we can trust

Middle fingers, both hands jammed in handcuffs

Seems like a war on us all, it’s a manhunt

Demand us, no land of the free

Can’t even go and stand on the street without getting ran up on

Your red and blue lights with two white cops already ready to pull triggers on sight

Or on who might, just so happen to have black skin

They act now the same way that they did back then

Back when, all for one, one for all

Had to show them all

Fuck you, fuck your law, fuck your protocol

This never ending war, we’ve all seen the same before

Trying to change but get the same results (twice)