C-Red & Tony Dark - Tired

Respect the kid
Poppin' like crepitus
"I can't breathe" won't get 'em off us
Remodeled to pessimists
A product of Baptist hymnals
And African Methodist
Doxology
So it's hard to be
Thought of as less than
Gifts of God
A lotta people got nothing
After you strip facades
Fix my hand in a fist
And lift it perpendicular
Sometimes I think I'm wasting muscle
Tryna lift the bar
And I still feel my afflictions
When the liquor's hard
Cuz every nigga knows a
Nigga with a different charge
Ones who took the plea
Cuz likelihood of an acquittal's marred
By risk of spendin'
Too much life in prison
When statistics chart
Progress since the 60s
60 years out
Still the system's flawed
Quick to call us black and angry,
Say we actin strangely
Caught on video
Displayed how their compassion's gangrene
Trained to aim at our frames
And then react to mainstream
We all exhausted but still pushing for the path to
Change Things

I surrender all
I surrender all
How can we be offenders
But defenseless, y'all?
Most likely to end up in trenches
From a senseless call
Feels like the only time we count is for the census
Officer, my hands are up don't shoot
I really hope I make it home to sleep tonight
Don't you?
So won't you break the cycle?
Instead giving in to hate
Suspended pay, the price goes
Up with every body that falls that's not y'all's
We gettin' tired

People get disgusted with
The things they see recorded
And they should
But we grow up knowing
We born into distorted odds
Fighting lies that say our DNA was sorted poorly
God
Is on our side
Even when it seems like He ignores, forgot
We out here
Courage can exist amidst our doubts, feas
Getting justice been a game of cat and mouse
For years
Yeah
But we ain't backin' down
It's time to swing this crap around
Because my seeds are black and brown
What's the reason street's disciples
Labeled by your biased sight
Thrown into to cycles
Where their lives ain't worth their rights
Or their survival?
Suffocate us
Shoot us 'til we lifeless with no vitals
Being a Black American
Is bound to drive me psycho
They'd use that excuse
To justify it on the news
Tell y'all my SSRI dose
Wasn't adjusted right
And choose
A picture of me lookin' nuts
By being snuffed, your life improved
The things that keep us up at night
Are ugly, trife, and cruel

I surrender all
I surrender all
How can we be offenders
But defenseless, y'all?
Most likely to end up in trenches
From a senseless call
Feels like the only time we count is for the census
Officer, my hands are up don't shoot
I really hope I make it home to sleep tonight
Don't you?
So won't you break the cycle?
Instead giving in to hate
Suspended pay, the price goes
Up with every body that falls that's not y'all's
We gettin' tired

Written by:
Anthony Dark, Carissa Redmon

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