Текст песни Say My Name - 148

Systematic oppression
From days of an adolescent
The pressure to be better oppressor saw me as lesser
They killing all my people I struggled writing this letter
Cried too many tears for 400 fucking years
Rising up with my peers and facing all of our fears
We gotta do it now before we all disappear
I Don't care, gon' be out in these streets like yo Pierre
With our voices and our banners make motherfuckers aware
No justice No Peace, fuck the police
They don't serve and protect they harass and arrest
I'm just trynna be my best in this life of sin
They be plotting on my death cause I'm darker skin
Make it hard to get a job
Make it hard to run for office
Label us a criminal when stacking up the profit
It's so fucking cynical the way that we've been ridiculed I'm bout to go all biblical and preach it like a prophet
See the bigger picture and don't let em try to crop it
Having peaceful protests they see it as a moshpit
Done with all the nonsense, we wanna see some change
We want to see it now cause' we've been through too much pain

I won't grieve no more
Bear this pain
Say my name
Say my name
If I die it's not in vain

Grieve no more
Bear this pain
Say my name
Say my name
If I die it's not in vain

Grieve no more
Bear this pain
Say my name
Say my name
If I die it's not in vain

Grieve no more
Bear this pain
Say my name
Say my name
If I die it's not in vain

You gonna feel my pain
Nigga we not playin
I won't stand to be slain
We won't sit to be chained
Where's the change, shit still the same
Black and white, It's still the same
I don't understand
Take the gun out cha hand (Don't Shoot)
Acting outta hand
Or just actin on brand
How could you kill another man and a husband
How could you kill another woman and a daughter

Oh oh yeah
Why I got these eyes on me
Shouldn't need to tell you that I can't breathe
Shouldn't need to say I deserve to live
So I put my heart in this song to grieve
Oh oh yeah
Why I got these eyes on me
Shouldn't need to roll down the street with a tint
Shouldn't need to say that I matter take a hint
I just try prepare for the worst cause you didn't

Right Now we have to be aware
Right Now we have to be awoken
Ever since Ronald Stokes in 1962
And long long long before that
The price for change has always been the life of black man, a black woman taken to soon
When will we realize that the same people who held us down
Are the same people who took us to the moon
Right Now we have to be awake
Right Now this is a chance we have to take
The first to oppose change are the oppressors
But when they see their time is coming to an end
They find a new way to repress us
They call it Reform
Segregation
Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration
What's next, Immigration
4th of July bang bang what a celebration
Built on the backs of my people, but once upon a time a time too black for the occasion
Where they succeeded
Was to tear us apart
Brothers and Sisters spread worlds apart
Caribbean, Africa's, America's
Right Now is time to come together
The sins of the father will no longer be held against any child
But will you stand aside