Every human has a voice Every human has a choice We all was meant to share this planet But it all starts with understanding I wish it could all be so easy Wake me up from the nightmare on the TV All the pain, the anxiety and hurt For the world to change, we have to change first Every day, feel like I'm supressin' my feelings Like I've been sentenced to pay a penance to people Who for some reason hate my existence They put us in ghettos and we embraced it Makin' the most out of a fucked up situation And you got the nerve to be racist? It's funny Controlling my education, religion, and money All we got is pride left and you focused on taking that from me The picture gets clearer when you feelin' like you at your safest It's still racist when you ain't in our faces and call us a nigga It's in the look, it's in the tone It's when you say "All lives matter" as a way to justify police doing wrong I know you hate it, but until black lives matter? Shit, "All lives matter" is a false statement All I want between you and I is to peacefully unify Look at the truth from my point of view And then you decide: who are you inside? You mean you like seeing humans shootin' and lootin' awry for dudes who got brutalized? We all done caught a bad one Lookin' around at all this chaos, Colin Kaepernick Takin' that knee don't seem that bad, huh? And now there's screaming in the streets No, don't give me no brick to throw 'cause what we out here screaming for is peace I wasn't even a teen when I seen what happened to Rodney King My niece, Navaya, just turned eleven and now she seeing the same thing We just tryin' to break the cycle by addressing what we seeing And me and Webby just an example that we all on the same team Oh, I heard a shot and laid down It's gettin' wild in the streets They settin' fire to the crown His momma yellin' "Oh, no, no Why they shot my son? No!" It's gettin' wild in the streets When the sun goes down Yeah War on the streets and nowhere to run to They arming police, military come too All we wanted was peace, but what we gon' do Watchin' all these conspiracies come true? And we got good cop, bad cop White cop, black cop Why call the cops when, this cop, that cop Out here shootin' like it's Call of Duty: Black Ops Another dead man laying on the blacktop Rioters sent by the left to stir This whole pot 'cause the plot's divide and conquer The right responds with violence beyond redemption Tension, no one rights the wrongs And the end result is the corruption bubbling to the top Ain't a cop that can stop the rumbling Bringing in SWAT won't stop what's coming We're past discussion, won't stop for nothing Unity's louder than troops and gunpowder The shroud institution has proved they're cowards They losin' their power, the future is ours Change gon' come, revolution has flowered And grown through the cracks of the concrete street Through the false info that been on TV This America so the pain run deep But we can never not be free Fuck a racist motherfucker, you can go and tell 'em how I feel So go and play your anthem, I'ma go ahead and kneel On the ground that the colonists had gotten for a steal Get it? 'Cause they stole it, shit, I'm just being real We're a country built off crime and white lies And I can see it through my white eyes If you don't see the problem, you the problem And they all exposed When our true colors get shown, woah Oh, I heard a shot and laid down It's gettin' wild in the streets They settin' fire to the crown His momma yellin' "Oh, no, no Why they shot my son? No!" It's gettin' wild in the streets When the sun goes down