How I Feel (feat. Leonard Sumner, Shad & Northern Voice)

Well I could never imagine the pain that the mother saw When life takes a turn for the worst and creators all Becomes another canvas that will never be completed I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated My energy is depleted But I wanna stand and fight So we can move the spirit instead travel back into the light I feel the fears and depression Fears and aggression Woven into society from years of oppression The violence is normalized The silence is horrifying Truth is denied and the fact is more are dying You don't have to tell me how you feel Cause I can hear it in your cries It's hard to listen, but listen Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships Still the heart's conditioned to condition the air When they air their conditions, Keep cool But the more tears, sometimes the clearer the vision Now what I see, been a long time coming The Tribe, running, rocking, reaching new peaks So them youngins can finally summit Climbing high above and then flying from it, up to the skies Overstanding the corruption and deconstructing the lies I've seen this country decline Trying to keep discussions confined Hide the underside Over-extract and try to undermine Damn, but I still believe in the truth Whether it's an MC in a booth, or a PhD in a suit Yo when we yelling protest, tell em the feeling is peaceful We profess, we pro-testify to the will of the people Tell them what they must know Turn it up loud when we bust flows Not in hushed tones, speaking up, let the trust grow Now you don't gotta tell me how you feel Cause I can see it in your eyes You don't gotta tell me that the pain is real Cause I can hear it in your cry Well, it's the type of heartbreak That takes more than tears and time to Stitch up any wounds and heal the scars they leave behind Separation from the fam, segregation on the land It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands It's all divide and conquer Colonize and slaughter Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers Now we see our daughters that are disappearing quickly Say it's through the cracks while ignoring all the history Governments be scooping babies way before the 60s When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery So now you see the mystery, is really not too complicated Justice isn't equally distributed in my observation Money could be made, while the kids are steady isolated And splitting up a family has now become an occupation And it's been part of the occupation Since residential schools enforced starvation It's a nation with racism here since the start of it Hard to let go cause it's carved in the heart of it Relation to the land and our rise were a part of it Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it And you don't have to tell me how you feel Cause I can see it in your eyes And they don't have to prove to me that the pain is real Cause I can hear it in their cries