The Roots - It Ain't Fair lyrics

[Intro: Bilal] Oh brother, hmm It’s a mystery, yeah Will you hear my cry? Won’t you my plea, oh? Cause I’ll never know (I’ll never know) How it feels (how it feels) How it feels (how it feels) Oh, how it feels (how it feels) To be To be Free [Verse 1: Bilal] People swear they won’t but they’re walking in their sleep I pray the Lord their souls to keep Because wolves disguised as sheep patrol our streets And we all know that what you sow, you shall reap Those who do know, you should teach Through every loophole, we gon’ leap until you reach A common ground and become unbound Because when your whole town becomes a better round Tears weighing down [Chorus: Bilal] Because it ain’t fair It’s hard when you’re looking for love And it ain’t there Or try to read what tomorrow holds When it ain’t clear Because the well is running dry Race attention is running high Under 21 is far too young to die My salvation’s under fire This marks a rising of the tide [Verse 2: Black Thought] Every day I wear a mask like an umpire Yes, a n***a gotta laugh to keep from crying Tonight another friend pa**ed on the young side It’s bad ’cause a good friend’s hard to come by Justice is never color blind, never gun shy The one crime, you may never see the sun shine We know of [?] times, giving you the finger [?] hearing me, f** you, it’s not the number one sign I hear they turning downtown to the front line It’s something like the same place but it ain’t safe They took it from the human race to a tank chase The Devil feeding off hate so he gain weight There’s tainted water in the well, so we can’t taste People dazed and amazed though it ain’t grace Impossible to co-exist in the same space Enter the black saint with the war paint face [Verse 3: Bilal] This generation, we’ve forsaken all that’s real What emotions do we feel? Is your poison called a pistol or a pill? Some people say, “Let Jesus take the wheel” Others say, “Thou shall not k**” But they don’t tell religion ain’t gon’ pay my bills We’ve come so far yet here we are Ruthless God, presumed inferior We scared o y’all [Chorus: Bilal] It ain’t fair It’s hard when you’re looking for love And it ain’t there Or try to read what tomorrow holds When it ain’t clear Because the well is running dry Race attention is running high Under 21 is far too young to die My salvation’s under fire Rising and rising to [?] [Verse 4: Black Thought] [?] is really made of American Mexicans Invested in wrestling with [?]’s next to kin The rising of the tide, new surrounding necks again Look at how they try to hide proof of all inexcellence The only tag you know me as is Holy Swag Through any gla** window, we smash, and bro we back It’s coming fast, I’m unabashed, so we have An awareness of the only flag that’s growing fast I guess I’m tryna minimize arrests, I identify with d**h That don’t mean it’s not an uninvited guest I’m just tryna answer all of my requests And express in 140 characters or less Why I’m the best educator, re-legislated, premeditated Dedicated, heavy weight that ever paid it with blood Not tuition without a cop’s permission I got a pot to piss in despite the opposition Listen [Chorus: Bilal] Oh, it ain’t fair It’s hard when you’re looking for love But it ain’t there Try to read what tomorrow holds And it ain’t clear Because the well is running dry And it ain’t fair No, it ain’t there No, it ain’t fair Looking for justice and it’s just us It ain’t fair There’s a riot going on out there And it ain’t fair When your protector is your predator It ain’t fair No, it ain’t fair No, it ain’t fair Y’all just gon’ turn the other way No, it ain’t fair Turn a bloody cheek on these bloody streets It ain’t fair It ain’t fair It ain’t fair No, it ain’t fair No, no No, no No, no No, no