I Can't Breathe Again

I live my life of attention In the suspension of my thumb above a screen And I dream, but only what I let myself To curate everything that I can see But then... I dreamed last night I saw my nieces and my nephews graduate And found that I was crying because I was just so proud of them, oh But then I woke up in a pool of sweat To news of the environment Of money monster lobbyists that sent us to the streets again We're raising up our fists again We're raising up our kids in this! Wondering how many times We'll have to shout it back to them that I can't breathe again I can't breathe again I watched a man kill another man on camera There can be no justice When we can't look our family in the eyes When we can't see beyond the color of our skin and the color of our gods And how it's held us down together throughout culture over time Though many've moved beyond the devil's knee there pressed behind No individual is free With any one of us denied And shouting I I watched a man kill another man on camera Can't breathe again I I watched again as another man on camera shouted, I Can't breathe again I can't breathe again