Criminal

Just an innocent pup Trying to rise up You're seeing something I can't see Just a young little boy Trying to find joy But this world wouldn't let this boy free Cause I'm a criminal Yeah I'm a criminal Went to school broke a rule I'm a criminal Teacher treat me like a fool, Like a criminal Making sure I can't breathe I'm a criminal I'm just trying to succeed But I'm a criminal You put your walls up to me Cause I'm a criminal All your hate's that see I'm a criminal Try to throw me in a cell Cause I'm a criminal Try to make my life hell Yeah I'm a criminal I'm a brown skinned man On indigenous land Yet you take all we have Cause you can't quit the clan Now you changed out your sheets For a badge and a gun Turn your laws against me To block out our sun You stole a whole continent Destroyed whole nations Forced your tongue down our throats Then tell us to be thankful Your genocide on going The colors you're showing The whole world sees the disease That you're growing How ignorant can a people be To come to my continent Then hate on me You hate me for my blood And you hate me for my pride And you hate me for the fact That I'm still Native deep inside You hate me for my skin And you hate me for my name And you hate me for the fact That we were here before you came We were here before you came We were here before you came How can anyone be so blind You call us criminals But you're only here Cause of genocide Don't take no pride Don't take no pride In your genocide You force your laws down our throat While you're drowning in sin Cause I'm a criminal You call me illegal Just for living on our lands You're enslaving our people What do you not understand You're the one that lies Yet I'm a criminal All you do is deny They call me criminal We're forced to work lands That you stole from us Forced to destroy our hands While you say in God we trust But God don't know you Your God don't know you You been lied to Not by me or my kind Look inside you I see the hate that you hide I grew up and saw Had the same on my plate Cause all that ever trickles down Is their reasons to hate They turn you against me Cause I'm a criminal They lie and they cheat They call me criminal They ruling us all They robbing us all They ruling us all They robbing us all But they make all the rules And you follow like fools And you learn from the schools How to just be the tools Of the criminals So I'm a criminal yeah I'm a criminal I can never rise If I'm criminal So don't be surprised If I turn criminal Cause I'm a criminal You've got the blood On your hands What part of this Do you not understand Y'all the criminal