Ka-Flame - 12.Black Tears lyrics
"Black Tears" - Prod. Gold'Dexter x Ka-Flame [Intro:] (2Pac's Message to People of color about Oppression) [1st Verse:] Don't You Surrender - Remember All of the Tactics/ In this War'zone - Only way Home - Is in a Casket/ Drastic?! -- But its the TRUTH - Need some Proof then Come & See!/ Ain't a Day that Goes by - This World is Drama Free/ Got CROOKED CORRUPT COPS - CONFISCATING All the Dope/ POLITICALLY PUSHING POWER - PUMPING Folks up with them Hopes/ And DREAMS of Better Things - Really just a Joke/ Knowing that [They're] just PUPPETS - But f** it - So is the POPE/ Putting JESUS on a ANKH?! - Now thats Total DISRESPECT!/ NOT to [Them] - But to {US} - So You Hoes are Getting Checked/ For Neglecting All The BLOOD - That Our Ancestors Shedded/ When the REVOLUTION REVEALED - You b**hes Gone REGRET It/ Black Tears in My EYES - And they Never gone Diminish/ Trying to Stack a Couple Racks - Just to Venture off in KEMET/ Didn't it Seem like a Nightmare - HOW [They] Made {US} Bleed?!/ Black Fist Up in the Sky - Held High As {WE} Proceed!/.... [Hook:] I've been Hustling and Striving I Admit it/ Struggling Surviving trying to Get it/ So Many Mental Scars - And I Still Ain't up and Quit it/ This World is Super Dark - Plus I'm Stuck up in this City/ Shedding Black Tears - (Shedding Black Tears)/ Been Dealing with this Pain - It be Bringing through the Years/ Trying to Maintain - In this Game - But I'm Still/... Shedding Black Tears... [2nd Verse:] Though its the Tears of a {KING} - Tears of a {GOD} Better Yet/ Rain Coming Down - Got the Ground Hella Wet/ My Name Ka-Flame - Can't Let Them See Me Sweat/ I'm Something Like a Jet - The Way I'm Taking Off/ The Way [They] Talk - I Can Tell Them Haters Shaking Salt/ I Break em' off - on some Proper sh** - I'm in my Chamber -- where I'm Dropping Hits - So They know - It Ain't No Stopping this/ Obviously I got a Different Grind -- And I'm (Awake) - I got a Different Mind/ They say I'm late - I'm Thinking this the Time/ Lets Elevate - That way {WE} Get to Shine/ You getting Yours - Aye I'm Getting Mine/ Lets hit Rewind and You'll Find - The way [They] Trying -- To Hold {US} Back Ain't Nothing New/ Be careful - Cause Them Motherf**ers Do -- sh** You Can't IMAGINE/ Change on You Quicker - Than Some b**hes in a Pageant/ And Treat {You} as a Has Been/...4'real... [Hook:] I've been Hustling and Striving I Admit it/ Struggling Surviving trying to Get it/ So Many Mental Scars - And I Still Ain't up and Quit it/ This World is Super Dark - Plus I'm Stuck up in this City/ Shedding Black Tears - (Shedding Black Tears)/ Been Dealing with this Pain - It be Bringing through the Years/ Trying to Maintain - In this Game - But I'm Still/... Shedding Black Tears... [Outro:] (2Pac speaks on Police Brutality)