Yeah, we could be free If we only knew We were slaves to the pains of each other One thing, I believe I could learn To see my enemy as my brother Then we could be free, truly And love could wash away our sorrows I'm not afraid to bleed If it means We'll make a better today not tomorrow One day I dream of telling my momma "You ain't gotta work no more" Same for my father, born in Ghana Down on that dirt road floor Far as he came I can't complain But pain is so subjective Spend so much time countin' issues I forget to count My blessings Watch my cousins back at home Getting water out a well While I watch my brother stacking stone Whippin' water by the scale Tryna' get a mill' on the other side They ain't got a meal We don't recognize we in heaven So we think we live in hell It's been getting kinda hard to tell But Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky Asking why I'm alive when the realest ****** died And my pride won't let me give up Lord as hard as I try In those times I try to remember That we could be free If we only knew We were slaves to the pains of each other One thing, I believe if I could learn To see my enemy as my brother Then we could be free, truly And love could wash away our sorrows I'm not afraid to bleed If it means We'll make a better today not tomorrow 'Nough, 'nough, 'nough We'll make a better today not tomorrow I don't want to wait for the afterlife I don't want a vigil by candle light I don't want to be the new sacrifice I don't want to turn into a poltergeist Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams Momma cryin' at an open casket Cold as ice in a suit, 3 piece All dressed up for Sunday masses Pastor said put faith in God But faith alone can't make things right **** is you to patronize Somebody's son whose daddy died? Why they flood Baton Rouge? Why the city singing Alton's blues? Why, why, why, why? I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news What the **** I got to lose? So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve You fools, saying "all lives matter" But it's black lives you refuse include Blocked from the polls Locked in the hood, trying to stop you From voting and stop you from growing And cops keep blowing and blowing Keep black people locked into cotton They don't want you to own, but Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky Asking why I survived all the days That I could've died Who am I in my place To contemplate suicide? In those times I try to remember That we could be free, truly If we'd only knew We were slaves to the pains of each other One thing, I believe I could learn To see my enemy as my brother Then we could be free, usually And love could wash away our sorrows I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means Some better todays than tomorrow 'Cause only love (tear somebody) Love (make my enemies my brothers) Love (woah woah woah) Make a better today not tomorrow Oh, yeah, oh oh oh, yeah, oh oh oh, yeah Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah Make my enemies my brothers Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah
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