Mykele Deville - Not Great lyrics

[Intro] How many times can you say that you have actually been in need of a policeman? Very few, I offer. I think you will concur And uh, we are entitled, I think, to a little exploration as to how these people spend their day [Verse: Mykele Deville] Oh say can you see? This government with another trick up its sleeve Wanna rock me to sleep then sell me a dream Foot the bill watch it k** never really hear the screams, suppression Will we ever really learn our lesson? Narrative is warped, never needed a confession Check the method: Make em wait, Make em pay, Make em slaves Make em hate anything that they don't understand How they supposed to fight the biggest gang in the land? Pipedreams funding pipelines in the sand Wanna raise up a fist, whoa now theyre outta hand, getting violent Protect the blue code of silence Put a black site near campus like a island We paying tuition to keep a victim in confinement, Geronimo Can't even hollow out the cells of Guantanamo Don't hear the whole truth we learn what we want to know Lies! Manage morale to keep the empire quiet Political poker they playing games with our lives From The Chi won't comply with a stop & frisk They betta find another option quick Cause we awake and we ain't going nowhere (nowhere) We know the basis of this and its unfair (unfair) Triple K's and the cross intertwined with the faults of the folks at the top and they don't care. (Don't care) So how to live? how we gone manage? You know we gotta understand how they take advantage We can't be begging for some access theyve never granted We have to rea**ess our language to heal the damage So we can breathe and feel fresh like we rose from the concrete (concrete) Muddy flesh but we sun kissed honestly (honestly) Redefine what it means to be a patriot But most of all redefine what greatness is... [Chorus (Repeat 4x)] Never great, never great, never was How can you when pumping communities full of d**? [Verse: Jovan] They wanna hate me! But at the same time, they wanna date me, take me, wanna rape me Scape, humiliate me, cage and mutilate me I have scars (I got scars. Yeah, I got scars.) Telling me who I are, reminds me of the dipsh**s Who brought us on ships who were chaining all our slit wrists Who can I trust, who can I run to? Because everywhere I turn, they're tryna hunt too Am I a mad black woman? Yeah I'm one, two Amongst the many other brothers, yeah I told you On the corner over there, I see the po-po Driving in their four-door riding slow-mo On the side of their waist is a fo-fo co*ked the gun and they shot a little Jo-Jo, solo As the time fly as opportunities to knock The clock won't beat me, I am never gonna stop This is not what I had originally fantasized Just waiting on replies and asking the Lord why (why why why why?) I'm knowing this all too well, they took my daddy from me Even though I turned out cool, It's sad how, they can do this legally They do it so strategically, making it so hard and not easily They not gone put me down, because I continue to breathe, I continue to breathe! We gone be alright, at the end of the tunnel, we can see the light We gone fight until the hell freeze over, and we gone fight while we're still on ice, b**h! [Chorus] [Outro] You can never expect to get a fair shake, from anything that is involved with government There is nobody who has ever run the government who has ever been fair and righteous Don't ever leave yourself open, to these people because they're dirty (that's a funny word: dirty. That's very basic.) But they are, they're dirty and they're no god damn good