This World

[00:02.93] I've seen joy and pain in this world (This world)
[00:06.78] I'm just tryin' to remain in this world (This world)
[00:09.79] I even pray to God for change in this world
[00:13.60] I've seen some troubling times in this world
[00:17.33] 'Cause my Black life matters in this world (This world, this world, this world)
[00:21.77] 'Til we're equal in this world
[00:24.67] Power to the people in this world (This world, this world)
[00:28.50] Been walking down the wicked streets of America, who'd have thought
[00:32.52] That the fight for basic civil rights was still left to be fought
[00:36.19] Even after we lost Huey, Hampton, Martin, and Malcolm
[00:39.98] To racist elite power structures whiter than talcum?
[00:44.07] See, they've been treatin' my people like they ain't equal
[00:47.74] Since the slave ships and now we livin' in a sequel
[00:51.43] Talkin' 'bout 'em lynchin' us, burnin' us and killin' us
[00:54.95] For 400 years, and man, they still ain't feelin' us!
[00:58.58] Systemic racism, economic and judicial
[01:02.06] Plus, killer cops attacking us daily, pulling their pistol
[01:05.79] So now mayne it's official, we've got to take a stand
[01:09.19] Every time they kill a Black woman or a Black man
[01:16.54] I've seen joy and pain in this world (This world)
[01:19.97] I'm just tryin' to remain in this world (This world)
[01:23.51] I even pray to God for change in this world
[01:27.48] I've seen some troubling times in this world
[01:30.89] 'Cause my Black life matters in this world
[01:34.21] 'Til we're equal in this world
[01:38.17] Power to the people in this world (This world, this world)
[01:41.50] The blacker the berry, the more weight to carry on these shoulders of ours
[01:45.35] While the candles burn dimly on corners, as we mourn the slain with bouquets of flowers
[01:49.14] As the killers go free, no matter the footage we see and vivid the pictures
[01:52.86] I just pray for the mothers and fathers that bury their babies, find comfort in scriptures
[01:56.48] And destroy the fiends and killers
[01:58.07] We more Kings and Queens then Niggas
[01:59.84] Ain't no tweets or memes can heal us
[02:01.28] Only we can protect the village and bless the children with knowledge and truth
[02:05.38] Strengthen the roots, the struggle is proof, the cutting the noose
[02:08.08] The living the life, the power to fight, to the power to be
[02:11.13] They point and they shoot
[02:12.23] And the cameras gon point at the looters like we ain't been peacefully protesting
[02:15.49] Like we ain't been tired of seeing people dying and they ain't get no justice
[02:19.17] Like a building on fire is worth way more than lives and a family that's crying feel hopelessness
[02:22.73] Cause the system is built off racism we knowing
[02:24.67] And that system been broken
[02:27.03] I've seen joy and pain in this world (This world)
[02:33.06] I'm just tryin' to remain in this world (This world)
[02:36.61] I even pray to God for change in this world
[02:40.47] I've seen some troubling times in this world
[02:43.84] 'Cause my Black life matters in this world
[02:47.47] 'Til we're equal in this world
[02:51.46] Power to the people in this world
[02:54.41] I done seen too much through the times
[02:57.60] Crazy days going through my mind
[02:59.44] Same color, same skin folk
[03:01.22] Murdered till they - my kind
[03:02.97] What about Breonna Taylor?
[03:04.52] Killed in her home, no one to save her
[03:06.13] From the same people that's supposed to protect us
[03:08.05] They let them walk free like it ain't nothing major
[03:09.84] Cold world, big Floyd shook the whole globe up
[03:12.20] Front line, be damned if I fold up
[03:14.20] This pressure season can't hold up
[03:16.19] They know it's real when I roll up
[03:17.86] I'll take this fight, any day, any time
[03:20.07] All this anger that I got on my mind
[03:21.83] Endangered species, ain't nothing here fine
[03:23.75] No open racists like we out here blind
[03:25.54] Say they name, say they name
[03:26.93] All these days I'm sick of pain
[03:28.98] Can't find a light, I'm sick of rain
[03:30.88] Until this is right, I'm gon complain
[03:32.61] It's hard but I've got to make it better
[03:34.54] Even with the odds against me, it's whatever
[03:36.50] Go hard, it ain't nothing I would rather
[03:38.38] This us, we gon do this shit together
[03:42.37] I've seen joy and pain in this world (This world)
[03:46.87] I'm just tryin' to remain in this world (This world)
[03:50.48] I even pray to God for change in this world
[03:53.93] I've seen some troubling times in this world
[03:57.31] 'Cause my Black life matters in this world
[04:01.04] 'Til we're equal in this world
[04:04.71] Power to the people in this world
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