If I Was White

Yeah

I know they said that Martin had a dream

Mama said I could be anything

Lately, I don't know what to believe

'Cause people with skin like me

Are more likely to be incarcerated

More likely to be less educated

In 2021 and it's frustratin'

I'm losin' patience

If one day the crowd should say my name

Hope these words will reach you from my grave

If I was white, I'd still be alive

And there'd be no pain in my mother's eyes

It just ain't right, my heart wouldn't race

When the police are passin' me by

If I was white

Maybe I would walk a little taller

Wouldn't switch it up when they be callin'

Wealth and generations keep me ballin'

I'll be ballin', never stallin'

Maybe I would be someone who stands up

'Cause ignorance ain't bliss, no, it's a cancer

So if you see me with my hands up

I need more than your camera

And if one day the crowd should say my name

Hopin' that these words won't be in vain

'Cause if I was white (If I was white)

I'd still be alive (Still be alive)

And there'd be no pain (No pain)

In my mother's eyes (In her eyes)

It just ain't right (Ain't right)

My heart wouldn't race (It wouldn't)

When the police (Police)

Are passin' me by (Passin' me, passin' me by)

If I was white

Na-na, na-na, na-na-na (Oh)

Na-na, na-na, na-na-na (Na-na)

Na-na, na-na, na-na-na (Na, na-na-na)

Na-na, na-na, na-na-na (Oh, oh)

Na-na, na-na, na-na-na (Oh, oh)

Na-na, na-na, na-na-na (Na-na, na-na)