400 Years

Ah, look

When you black in America

It’s like you’re a different type of human being

No one else can hear your scream

When you black in America

It’s like you’re living stuck up in a dream

But it's someone else’s dream

When you black in America

Coming back home ain’t guaranteed

Cause the police trigger squeeze

When you black in America

They don’t ever wanna see you pleased

So they love to make you bleed

When you black

When you black

When you black

They just wanna take you

Right back to the past

They don’t want to see you

Rise up surpass

They just wanna do

Whatever it takes to make you last

Ah

400 years of intimidation

They had in enslavement

And now they shooting patients

Ah

400 years of intimidation

We running out of patience

Nothing seems to be changing

Ah

400 years of intimidation

They had in enslavement

And now they shooting patients

Ah

400 years of intimidation

We running out of patience

Nothing seems to be changing

Ah and nothing ever gon’ change

Unless we stand up and we make our own change

We gotta rise up cause we tired maintaining

The system that ain’t for us so we gotta start taming

The cops yea police cause they try to shoot us down

No justice no peace

Yea we yell it in the crowds

Defund the police

Yea we need that right now

We riot and we protest

Until they shut them down

Ah

Look am black am proud

I said am black and proud

I’ll yell it out loud

Am black and am proud

I said I’ll yell it out loud

Ah

400 years of intimidation

They had in enslavement

And now they shooting patients

Ah

400 years of intimidation

We running out of patience

Nothing seems to be changing

Ah

400 years of intimidation

They had in enslavement

And now they shooting patients

Ah

400 years of intimidation

We running out of patience

Nothing seems to be changing