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I'm just a nigga on the block in chains
With a price on my head watching the stock exchange
Bought and sold with the promise of being locked and caged
They're breaking families un-phased, I just watch amazed.
The black market, I'm branded, considered inventory.
They don't consider me human and still they're bidding for me. They call this the land of the free? I've seen a different story, pay a figure, buck break a bigger get him to build it for me.
The pressure seems unreal, I need consent to breathe. They'll whip every slave in the county if I attempt to leave. Probably draw and quarter my family, that's if I just could read or gut me for my ancient religion, that's if I just believe.
This glass ceiling on my life won't shatter, I'm feeling like my black life don't matter, telling me run. Instead, I go through my trials with survival my number one priority, focused on the intelligence of my son.
Blood in the water
Go on and choke it down
Down for your father
'Cause what goes around comes back around
Blood in the water
Go on and choke it down
Down for your father
'Cause what goes around comes back around
Hanging on the block on trees, victims of violence too, and taking drags 'til Emmitt unrecognizable. This strange fruit isn't haze, feel it diving who's riding verses trying to pour gasoline on the problem.
cn escape is what I need, a little drink, a little reefer, but I get stopped and get arrested, I'm thrown in prison for chiefin' it's wild. It may be that the same reason they sent me here gon' make white folks millionaires in like 50 years. Invented rock n roll to cope with injustice, from here to London not surprising how they're stolen it from us. Let us get a little richer then it was Johnny be good, watching Elvis singing records with our sound from the hood for klan members riding shrouded with hoods. I'm trying to grow into a rose and leave the dirt that they watered with fire hoses, I hope I live through the fire survival my number one priority focused on the embetterment of my son.
Blood in the water
Go on and choke it down
Down for your father
'Cause what goes around comes back around
Blood in the water
Go on and choke it down
Down for your father
'Cause what goes around comes back around