Oh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohNahStarting a war, screaming “Peace” at the same timeAll the corruption, injustice, the same crimesAlways a problem if we do or don’t fightAnd we die, we don’t have the same rightWhat is a gun to a man that surrenders?What’s it gonna take for someone to defend her?If we all agree that we’re equal as peopleThen why can’t we see what is evil?I can’t breatheYou’re taking my life from meI can’t breatheWill anyone fight for me?Oh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohHow do we cope when we don’t love each other?Where is the hope and the empathy? (Yeah)How do we judge off the color?The structure was made to make us the enemy (Yeah)Prayin’ for change ’cause the pain makes you tenderAll of the names you refuse to rememberWas somebody’s brother, friendOr a son to a mother that’s crying, singingI can’t breatheYou’re taking my life from meI can’t breatheWill anyone fight for me? (Yeah)Oh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohWill anyone fight for me?Oh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh (For me)
Trying times all the timeDestruction of minds, bodies, and human rightsStripped of bloodlines, whipped and confinedThis is the American prideIt’s justifying a genocideRomanticizing the theft and bloodshedThat made America the land of the freeTo take a black life, land of the freeTo bring a gun to a peaceful fight for civil rightsYou are desensitized to pulling triggers on innocent livesBecause that’s how we got here in the first placeThese wounds sink deeper than the bulletYour entitled hands could ever reachGenerations and generations of pain, fear, and anxietyEquality is walking without intuitionSaying the protector and the killer is wearing the same uniformThe revolution is not televisedMedia perception is forced down the throats of closed mindsSo it’s lies in the headlinesAnd generations of supremacy resulting in your ignorant, privileged eyesWe breathe the same and we bleed the sameBut still, we don’t see the sameBe thankful we are God-fearingBecause we do not seek revengeWe seek justice, we are past fearWe are fed up eating your shitBecause you think your so-called “black friend”Validates your wokeness and erases your racismThat kind of uncomfortable conversation is too hard for your trust-fund pockets to swallowTo swallow the strange fruit hanging from my family treeBecause of your audacityTo say all men are created equal in the eyes of GodBut disparage a man based on the color of his skinDo not say you do not see colorWhen you see us, see usWe can’t breatheOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh