Drown

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 niggas around, standing ‘round all my niggas around me
Crew up, grew up in the same surroundings, niggas 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,” niggas 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)