Numonics - Hands lyrics

[Intro: AWKWORD] This that part where I'm supposed to lose it? Get down on my knees, apologize to the music? Stretch my hands up, and ask for absolution? No [Verse 1: AWKWORD] Don't stop, no matter what, throw your fist in the air Better watch for the narcs, your circle rots with squares They're getting knots off pot, friends still locked up there Run for shelter when you hear shots, stock guns in there Don't forget for what we fought, do not be scared Righteousness and justice, it's a lot to bear It's getting hot in here, as the system cranks We're all cogs in a machine, controlled by the banks They just print some new money, to pay for the tanks That they drive through the hood, no matter the rank Spouses pay taxes, broke, trying not to break Big business gets bigger, boosted up by tax breaks That we never hear about in the news on tv That we never turn off, obsessed with celebrity Getting paid for endorsements, on products that fail That we steal cause we're poor and end up locked in jail [Hook: AWKWORD - Repeat 2x] In the national mall, camping, come arrest me In the middle of the march, chanting, 'FTP' In your cla**room, ranting, about the WTC Off the white house railing, hangs, 'let's get free' [Verse 2: AWKWORD] Stop it right there and stretch your hands to the sky 'Never trust police' is what I've known since I was five And every cop I've met always wants to know why For all the times I saw my street swept up out in Bed Stuy Hop out the van and took the whole block at once Meanwhile, I'm sitting there, on my stoop with a blunt Punch homeless vet in the gut, break Black man's bones Gentrifiers are afraid to tape, ('I might lose my phone!') And thats not all, I've had my run-ins with the law Picture this, my little sister stole a grand from the mall And I, well I'm the teacher, 101 in breaking rules Black mask, robbed the gas station in high school Whipped the Nissan round, with a bat in the trunk Neo-nazis with machetes, but I wouldn't get punked Jumped the QB in the bathroom, almost didn't graduate Had to tattoo him, he raped my friend that past saturday [Hook: AWKWORD - Repeat 2x] In the national mall, camping, come arrest me In the middle of the march, chanting, 'FTP' In your cla**room, ranting, about the WTC Off the white house railing, hangs, 'let's get free'