That Tone (You Can't Win)

Recently I read about some big statistic Something like how "all lives break the law" Something like how "all lives ain't really all 'Cause it's really some lives that'll take the fall And even when the big stats make it really clear That you my white and black and brownish brothers are a mirror Even though we're looking different let us make it clear Something's been constructed and that thing is fear Somewhere down the road or should I say up the stream If we take a look back back behind the screen Man I think the devil had it all up in his sleeve "Let us make man think he's a different being" Different from his black brother different from Asian sister Different from his brown brother different from his Haitian sister Different from his beautiful indigenous and limitless and image bearing people That were on the land before a flag was planted here Something's been constructed and that thing is fear You can't win You can't win I won't ever let you win I can't hear the thing that you're saying Cause i don't like the way that you're saying it Staying up late watching only horror movies Not the Hollywood ones but they're just as abusive Wake up in the morning and the news is always looping I went to sleep with the same clothes that I put on How does one take fatigue from generations of abuse And shake it off? Please tell me something new Your prejudice is eroding my skin and my soul Yet telling me "Hey baby keep pushing on" How does one go about telling you that they just wanna live In such a way that makes you wanna listen and not run instead? And hear their plea for life be about  their life Not their plea for life not about what tone is right? Just saying that "I can't imagine what you going through" "Man that's so terrible. I can't believe that this is true" That's not enough to heal all of the generations pain Accountability ain't justice for the silent graves Something's been constructed and that thing is fear You can't win You can't win I won't ever let you win I can't hear the thing that you're saying Cause i don't like the way that you're saying it