[Intro]
We could be free
If we only knew we were slaves to the plays of each other
One day, I believe I'd learn
To see my enemy as my brother
Then we could be free, truly
And we could wash away our sorrows
I'm not afraid to bleed
If it means, we'll make them better today not tomorrow
[Verse 1]
One day I dream of telling my momma
"You ain't gotta work no more"
Same for my father, born in Ghana, down on that dirt road floor
As far as he came I can't complain, but pain is so subjective
Spend so much time countin' issues, I forget to count
My blessings
Watch my cousins back at home, getting water out a well
While I watch my brother stacking stone, whippin' water by the scale
Tryna' get a mill' on the other side
They ain't got a meal, we don't recognize we in heaven
So we think we live in hell
It's been getting kinda hard to tell
But
[Bridge]
Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky
Asking why I'm alive when so many n***as died
And my pride won't let me give up, lord as hard as I try
In those times I try to remember
[Hook]
That we could be free
If we only knew we were slaves to the plays of each other
One day, I believe I'd learn
To see my enemy as my brother
Then we could be free, truly
And we could wash away our sorrows
I'm not afraid to bleed
If it means, we'll make them better today not tomorrow
[Verse 2]
I don't want to wait for the afterlife
I don't want a vigil by candle light
I don't want to be the new sacrifice
I don't want to turn into a poltergeist
Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams
Momma cryin' by an open casket
Cold as ice in a suit, 3 piece
All dressed up for Sunday ma**es
Pastor said put faith in God
Faith in the lord can't make things right
Who the f** is you to patronize
Somebody's son whose daddy died?
Why they flood Baton Rouge?
Why the city singing Alton's blues?
Why, why, why, why?
I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news
What the f** I got to lose?
So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve
You fools saying "all lives matter"
But it's black lives you refuse include
Life unopposed
Locked in the hood
Trying to stop me from voting and stop me from growing
And cops keep blowing and blowing
Keep black people locked into cotton
They don't want you to own
[Bridge]
Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky
Asking why I survived all the days that I could have died
Who am I in my place
To contemplate suicide?
In those times I try to remember
[Hook]
That we could be free, truly
If we'd only knew we were slaves to the plays of each other
But I believe I'd learn
To see my enemy as my brother
Then we could be free, truly
And we could wash away our sorrows
I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means
We'll make them better today not tomorrow
[Outro: *Ty Dolla $ign* and Vic Mensa]
Love *(love)*
Love *(love)*
To love my enemy as my brother
*(yeah yeah yeah)*
Make my enemy my brother