TARGETS

God your people live in the midst of men Who like hunters Lay traps for their prey Who like hunters Target the poor and the marginalized and the oppressed Dear Heavenly Father And because we are targeted Because we have lived this life Where our bodies and souls and spirits and our minds Have been mutilated day after day after day Because your people are targeted Dear Heavenly Father We need you rise up Dear Heavenly Father But we don't ask you to rise up on your own We don't ask you to rise up and do all of the protecting yourself We ask that you would rise up In us And equip us To be able to protect ourselves Amen They come for us In the middle of the night They ain't knocking they just shooting In the middle of the night But then they mad that we looting In the middle of the night Ain't for nothin we want justice Man this just ain't right Momma said what's done in dark Always seem to come to light She also told us don't go down Without a muthafucking fight And it's hard cause we been fighting This our whole fucking life Its like they always got a gun When we barely got a knife Feel like it's bound to go left And we barely got rights When we got fire in our eyes And they veins cold as ice We practically made the pie And they barely share a slice When they can take our last steps Do they even blink twice We screaming black lives They say all lives But it really ain't the same when they say all rise It's time for us to live and not just survive It's been us for too long we need all eyes I swear to tell the truth and the whole truth Not one lie told in this whole booth I couldn't make this up if I wanted to Both arms up screaming don't shoot Cause we targets It ain't right but we always had it the hardest It's like it's branded on our skin that we targets And it's a muthafucking shame It can never be the same But it's time for us the change that we Targets They walk wit us and pretend to be our friend But behind closed doors They just plotting on our end Make our kids take deals For shit they wasn't even in Tell us how it wouldn't have happened If we just a followed this They took our fathers away Screwed us in politics We still hurt from slavery They won't even acknowledge it We gotta look our kids in the eyes In fear of all of this And pray they make it home For the street lights on our only wish They can shoot us in our back Smile with they knee on our neck We get to lose our life They only lose a check We get to lose years They prolly just lose a bet We get to shed tears They barely shed respect We screaming black lives They say all lives But it really ain't the same when they say all rise It's time for us to live and not just survive It's been us for too long we need all eyes Cause we targets It ain't right but we always had it the hardest It's like it's branded on our skin that we targets And it's a muthafucking shame It can never be the same But it's time for us the change that we Targets I swear to tell the truth and the whole truth Not one lie told in this whole booth I couldn't make this up if I wanted to Both arms up screaming don't shoot Blaow On camera and can't get a trial They don't even give a f*ck if our kids around Why we can't jog our streets without fear and doubt We gotta lift ourselves up when they put us down Cross our chest or fist up They gotta hear us loud Tichalla to Huey Newton We Black Panther proud They'll try to shoot us in the legs Just for standing out Stand for something or stand for nothing No more standing round We already lost too much It's time to shake the towns Til they can't drown out the noise And they can't take the sounds Sometimes to truly rebuild You gotta tear it down Set the world on fire So they can hear us now Cause we targets It ain't right but we always had it the hardest It's like it's branded on our skin that we targets And it's a muthafucking shame It can never be the same But it's time for us the change that we Targets