Power in the Wrong Hands

You can't think You can't see You can't dream You can't be Who you have the right to be I cannot believe it You can't Have feelings Desires Beliefs or attitudes That are different from those Who try to control you So you You just Try to say the same as them and listen to all of the things that they tell you Try to be the one who serves their master well or you will be punished all the way to hell Try to be the one who plays the game fair while they break all of the rules and declare Power Is something you once had Power Time to give it back Time to give it back If I died before I gave birth to you I would have saved the world You said it with hatred and disgust Yeah I think I get it by now I'm a curse I am nothing I'm a failure I am ugly I'm a loner And to you I'll always be this way Guilty by birth Ugly from skin Who knew being the darkest girl would be a crime that sentences me to a life in prison A crime that doesn't fit the punishment But the feelings fit the facts I put shame to the family for reasons that have more to do with you than to do with me Even little girls with skin like night Found freedoms I could never fight You called me a black slave chained in shame Rigged a system where you staked your claim A family tree so deeply stained By generational hate ingrained You wielded worlds of cruel oppression Fostering pain in your own reflection A colorism that broke me through Left me battered black and blue Black and blue through and through Did your family do the same to you I don't know about you but I know about me If I ever have a kid It won't be anything Like this like this like this like this I'll grit my teeth and I'll try Not to ever mistreat the heart of my child What's new What's new Did you finally discover That I might be a good person Haha Haha Haha Haha Like that would ever happen Like that would ever happen One day you are here The next day you are gone And I will never know if life will be consistent But let me tell you something One of us has changed Let me bring you the new me The one who won't take the blame In a world where you are always right how wrong can I be How wrong can it be to be me How guilty How guilty Guilty until proven otherwise Guilty until proven otherwise My truth gets buried under all your lies You can't believe me You can't believe it You can't think You can't see You can't dream You can't be Who you have the right to be You would not believe it Stripped of reason that no one understands Injustice spreads across these barren lands All sense of fairness finally disbands Leaving nothing but Power in the wrong hands