New Slavery

I experienced a lot in my life working for a short time, I had this job pushing water from vents, on the black line, old school singing tunes, from the past time, the black kind, turned and seen some whites gathered and laughing pointing and branding wasn’t till later I seen divides from where we was standing, as I moved forward I just looked for the answers Slavery ain’t the same as what it used to be, Now a-days we slaves to jewels, cars, we want it all, driven by thoughts that not even ours, putting ads out with digital memes, Vision skewed, false reality means, poor little girls making barbie the dream, don’t have to hit like to feel what I mean, I’m just a man with a hustle, hypocrisy shuffle, Living life in a duffle, I tell my brothers I love them cause we scuffle. One of my brother half blind and it hurts me. How do I tell him that the world isn’t even perfect? How shoes and expensive things deject the black persons. Like it’s a crime to be ya own person. Your only cool if you wanna were nikes, addiads, its like, to go out in public you wearing a mic, taking in judgement. People die its what we go through, all I ask is don’t let the world take over, manipulate and try to control you. Chorus I never thought it would be the same, the path I’m paving now is way up high I’m in the plane, Away from all the politics and social cues But let me choose to be free man, not with a noose, no duck duck goose, My niggas out here and they feeling empty. How you supposed to change somebody when you feeling guilty. About the shit you did in you life, or them times you had to steal to survive. You got kids, you don’t want them to die You getting food stamps on the low, you get them from yo dad, he getting money another way, cause he was selling crack, in the back, See the treehouse, where ya sisters at, she peeping that, seeing something that would bring her back, Now she chilling in the kitchen cooking chicken at 24, you pull up to her door, wide open, you lose ya soul, rush into the house quick, man you would never forget what you seen. She overdosed, and there was crack on the sink. Chorus Sometimes My mind Flies From away here My dear, I just can’t take it I just can’t take it Sometimes My mind Flies away here My dear, I just can’t fake shit I just can’t fake shit