Say Their Names

Legends never experience death That means weapons that's forged against us won't get near to success We're feared and we're blessed with PTSD serious stress Cause knees in the rears of our necks is stealing our breath That's why we've BEEN screaming BLM and FTP Way before CNN and MSNBC Waging war's the freshest recipe so let's get free Not Televised but it's injected in an em-pee-three You see there's flaws in the laws like probable cause Suspicious, fit the description, and impossible odds Murder was the cases they gave us, false was the charge I shot the sheriff, ranking officer, and also the Sarge We're in a Stop & Frisk apocalypse Tear gas and rubber bullets vs. rock and bricks The same shackles used for slavery now lock your wrists To put us back on the plantation is why the cops exist Incarceration of the masses by the classless, racists, and fascists Baseless blatantly backwards hatred aimed at our blackness Neighbors raising a black fist pain is major and maximum It's not a game of captions "Say Their Names" with your actions Real life feels like a movie plot Your duty is not to brutally abuse the block Leon Ford got accused to be some dude Lamont Then a routine stop led to teen shot Now Say Their Names Now Say Their Names Now Say Their Names Now Say Their Names Can't stop the attack How you defend it when they sending seven shots to your back Delayed pension paid suspension wouldn't cause him to act Any different if his wrists just get a possible slap Where are the consequences When public servants murder the unarmed and defenseless Good people "on both sides" beyond offensive Can't be on the fences use your Common Senses At some point, silence is a betrayal In these times when simply driving or trying to live is fatal With racial profiling just trying to live can fail Some even died inside just trying to find the bail Why are they so mad over that work "Matter" When we're three times more likely observe that absurd data They say stay positive but it only gets worse after That's just scratching the surface I'm serving the first chapter Too many cogs in the system In Wisconsin they got two cops that belong in a prison This song's for all of the martyrs on a posthumous mission Say Breonna there's no longer an anonymous victim Now Say Their Names Now Say Their Names Now Say Their Names Now Say Their Names