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It's crazy Cops is at us Gotta watch your back from your own brother Your girl nagging you Kids stressing you Just don't know which way to turn Damn Catching hell from both sides Yeah Don't know why We gotta catch hell from both sides Come on Why we gotta catch hell from both sides And they wonder why we don't cry Cause we don't heal, so we don't feel Yo I'll be damned if they martyr me Cause I challenge oppression they try deleting autonomy Scream f*ck your equality, you'd assume I'm thinking psychotically but Being in line with tyrants ain't something I wanna see Such divisive dichotomy, pushing poverty policies Got authorities watching me Why do prisons get privacy, huh Powers that be don't want my folks to be free, uh Politicians bare resemblance to Robert E. Lee, uh Hyper capitalistic fascist elites got us crowding the streets This revelations, peep the mark of the beast I'll never offer defeat And keep your solidarity if you ain't marching with me This can't be the America that Martin thought it would be So much pain I've inherited, I need this weight off of me My legacy's imperative, they put that eraser on me Tried to eradicate my impact Time for some get back Feeling like I'm Catching hell from both sides Black, white, wrong, right, got me wondering why, why We gotta catch hell from both sides Evil, good, suburban, hood, feeling misunderstood Why we gotta catch hell from both sides Father, mother, sister, brother, even my lover And they wonder why we don't cry Cause we don't heal So we don't feel Swear this life is so ill when you catch it from both sides And they attacking from the back and the front Smiling faces filled with hatred, they just label it love If you don't fit the mold the goal is to convince you to change But the Bible say I was fearfully and wonderfully made When you in the world, streets is known to leave brothers cold Old lady acting crazy, hard to turn a house into home Said she forgives but don't forget because the hurts too deep Wounds is blinding her from deciding when to be yo peace Man I don't get it They see us when we under duress Even the closest kin will only tend to us as a threat Damn Just tread carefully and guard yo energy king Trust your moment is coming as sure as the pendulum swings But still we Catching hell from both sides Black, white, wrong, right, got me wondering why, why We gotta catch hell from both sides Evil, good, suburban, hood, feeling misunderstood Why we gotta catch hell from both sides Father, mother, sister, brother, even my lover And they wonder why we don't cry Cause we don't heal So we don't feel Swear this life is so ill when you catch it from both sides