Black Requiem (feat. Miztick)

What's so hard to understand What's so hard to fathom Still got strange fruit swinging from the poplar trees 2021 And Black lives still don't matter Why is taking 400 years for you to see what's in your heart And right before your eyes And even when we got the live rolling and phones recording Some don't believe it when they see it with they own eyes Somebody tell me why it's such a crime Doing everyday things we get brutalized Prosecute the victims and put them trial To justify the reason they was crucified Tati home with her nephew Blue shadow outside shot her black shade in the night Second Amendment, right Botham jean chilling in his own crib Shot down for being Black while he was eating a bowl of Ice cream, ice cream I scream Stop killing me Stop killing me The stories be the same skin tones but they names change Shifting all the blame like they did it to themselves Going through they trash Digging up they past Make their lives a crime Lying to deny Making up excuses for the why they had to die Putting them on trial Shame the victims, why If they woulda shoulda done what coulda kept them from demise But the truth be told they were being Black while fill in the blank Somebody tell me why it's such crime Doing everyday things we get brutalized Glorify the killer, put the dead on trial And justify the victims being crucified Breona's killers still out there living they best life Family crying everyday and every night Elijah just playing violin for stray cats And they shot Philando down with his family in the car and I scream, I scream, I scream I scream, yeah I scream, I scream Stop killing me My dear, my dear, my dear You do not know me but I know you very well so well Silent in the battle but you're quick to pull a card for show and tell do tell Don't tell me that you'll stand when you don't have a will to walk Don't tell me that you'll walk if you don't have a will to talk Don't tell me that you're woke Please don't play games 'bout who you are Don't tell me that you're broken when you ain't been hit at all All me and my brothers want is peace amongst us all Why is this a message you're attacking with your dogs Why is this a message you're attacking with your wall Why is this a message that's an outrage to the world My dear, my dear, my dear You do not know me but I know you very well so well Listen to my brothers crying out from in the streets and in their cells Such hell I dream of a day where we're in liberated peace I dream of a day when we won't have to take a knee I dream of a day when we're not running from police I dream of a day when we're ain't murdered in our sheets Mary weep, Martha moan When our babies ain't coming home And they killed in they own home Mary weep, Martha moan When our babies ain't coming home And they killed in they own home Mary weep, Martha moan Ice cream chilling at home He was killed in his own home Mary weep, Martha moan With the nephew playing videos And he shot her through her window Mary weep, Martha moan When they getting candy from the sto' Watching neighborhood done shot him cold Mary weep, Martha moan Pulled over for speeding, oh no Strung up off the jail cell flo' Mary weep, Martha moan Lying on a 14 year old His face ain't even recognizable Mary weep, Martha moan Falsely convicted for a rape, yo The exonerated five y'all Mary weep, Martha moan They framed my mom in law for murder y'all And she died behind the prison walls Life imprisonment with no parole Prison work camp gave her cancer tho' Mamma Ben ain't never coming home Mary weep and Martha moan When our people ain't coming home When our people ain't coming home When our people ain't coming home When our people ain't coming home Got the license out the glove box tho' Licensed to carry but they shot him cold Jogging on an afternoon stroll Lynched with no arrests, it took too long Got his knee in his neck tho' Cried for mama and she took him home Playing violin for cats, y'all They beat him down, then they choked him out No warrant knocking on the wrong do' She was killed in her own home No warrant knocking on the wrong do' She was killed in her own home When they pushed him off the bridge, y'all Suicide, we don't believe it nah Say his name 'Mont Stowers-Jones Say his name 'Mont Stowers-Jones Mental distress, 911 call Tased and shot while he cried out to god Mental distress, hey, hey Tased and shot while he cried out to god Selling cigarettes, chokehold I can't breathe, I can't breathe, no I can't breathe, I can't breathe, chokehold, yeah I can't breathe, I can't breathe, no I got my hands up! I got my hands up, don't shoot, no Hands up don't shoot, no Hands up, hands up, hands up, don't shoot, no Hands up don't shoot, no You killing me, why you killing me, why you killing me, yeah, yeah Stop killing me Why you killing me You know why you killing me, yeah, yeah Stop killing me My brothuhs and my sistahs, elders, ancestors, yeah, yeah Stop killing me This is why we kneel. this is why we protest. this is why we resist Stop killing me This is why we scream We cry out We will weep and we will moan But we will keep fighting on, hey-eeee Black excellence leads the way As we praise, create, invent, and innovate Our faith as we fight Our joy in the face of adversity We're more than a hashtag We're more than a soundbite Black lives, they matter Black lives, they matter This is our Black Requiem