I'm Bleeding Day & Night

I didn't wake up bleeding.

I went to sleep with it.

I scrolled my timeline and saw

All my contacts arguing with one

Another.

Most of us were on the same page; we're not blind.

This was obviously murder and a cover-up.

But what kills me is how some of you are goin' thru life like this shit

Didn't just happen in broad day light.

I mean, a whole execution is showing on CNN

And you folks out here pushin your

Courses, your tee-shirts and diet drinks...

Oh, I get it.

This wasn't you or your family.

Maybe you don't live in Minneapolis, so this

Doesn't affect you. ..

So, that's what we doin?

People's lives don't matter no more?

And the lies the government is spittin on the fake news

Doesn't trigger you?

They're changing the laws in plain sight, no constitutional rights, and

This looks NORMAL to you?

This doesn't look like some Hitler shit?

Are you fuckin KIDDING me?

They say breathe and move on.

But how can I move on

When this shit lives in my nightmares?

Got me tossin and turnin into the morning

My chest feels heavy.

My hands shake for no reason.

My children ask questions I don't know how to answer.

I'm not screaming.

I'm not rioting.

I'm just trying to survive what I've already seen.

If you feel this too

If you've been carrying it quietly

This song is not entertainment.

This is a wound.

Day and night... day and night... I'm bleeding...

Oh, I'm bleeding day and night...

I wake to another morning where the sky is painted gray.

Sirens in the distance; another mother's child is taken away.

Tears stain my pillow from the violence I saw at midnight.

Every day it breaks me, but I stand back up to fight.

I'm bleeding day and night from wounds that run so deep.

I'm bleeding day and night for promises we couldn't keep.

My heart is crying out-can anybody see our plight?

We're lost between the darkness and the light-I'm bleeding day and night.

I walk through the fire with the names of the fallen on my tongue.

Shadows of injustice rise around me, blocking out the sun.

The color of my skin and the prayers I pray put a target on my back.

But love is the armor around my soul that keeps my spirit intact.

I carry generations in scars carved into my soul.

Their whispers in the wind say, "keep on 'til the dawn."

I still fear the night when hate roams on every street.

Yet I hold onto hope by a thread that one day love will lead us home.

How much more can we bleed until the river turns into a flood?

How many more cries until heaven hears us and brings change for good?

I fall to my knees under the weight of all this pain.

I'm praying for mercy, begging for the sun to break this endless rain.

I'm bleeding day and night; these streets are paved with tears.

Bleeding day and night, under the shadow of all our fears.

I hear a thousand voices rising-tonight they're crying "enough is enough."

We won't be lost in the darkness; we'll step into the light-

Even if we're bleeding day and night.

Day and night... day and night... I'm bleeding...

Oh, I'm bleeding day and night...

I'm still here.

That part matters.

I don't have a solution.

I don't have a speech that fixes it.

I don't even have sleep.

What I have

Is breath

And memory

And a heart that refuses to go numb.

They tried to make us tired.

They tried to make us quiet.

They tried to make us look away.

But pain remembers.

And love remembers longer.

So if you're listening

And your eyes are heavy

And your soul feels bruised

Know this

You are not weak for feeling it.

You are not crazy for crying.

You are alive.

And tonight

We bleed together

So tomorrow

We don't disappear.