400 Years

Ah, look When you black in America It’s like you’re a different type of human being No one else can hear your scream When you black in America It’s like you’re living stuck up in a dream But it's someone else’s dream When you black in America Coming back home ain’t guaranteed Cause the police trigger squeeze When you black in America They don’t ever wanna see you pleased So they love to make you bleed When you black When you black When you black They just wanna take you Right back to the past They don’t want to see you Rise up surpass They just wanna do Whatever it takes to make you last Ah 400 years of intimidation They had in enslavement And now they shooting patients Ah 400 years of intimidation We running out of patience Nothing seems to be changing Ah 400 years of intimidation They had in enslavement And now they shooting patients Ah 400 years of intimidation We running out of patience Nothing seems to be changing Ah and nothing ever gon’ change Unless we stand up and we make our own change We gotta rise up cause we tired maintaining The system that ain’t for us so we gotta start taming The cops yea police cause they try to shoot us down No justice no peace Yea we yell it in the crowds Defund the police Yea we need that right now We riot and we protest Until they shut them down Ah Look am black am proud I said am black and proud I’ll yell it out loud Am black and am proud I said I’ll yell it out loud Ah 400 years of intimidation They had in enslavement And now they shooting patients Ah 400 years of intimidation We running out of patience Nothing seems to be changing Ah 400 years of intimidation They had in enslavement And now they shooting patients Ah 400 years of intimidation We running out of patience Nothing seems to be changing