Quique Cruz - Finger on the Scale

Every time a Brown mom cries
It makes me wanna wipe the tears from her eyes
For real

Everything that man made fails
They wanna do this like The Handmaid's Tale
They put their finger on the scale to lock me in a prison cell
Or throw me in a jail with no bail
Every time a Black boy dies
I wanna wipe the tears from his mother's eyes
It's time to rise and really organize
Strategize against these right-wing lies

Get on the left side of history
Fighting for human rights from Bed Sty to Sicily
From the West side to Kissimmee, the right wing be dissin' me
Cuz I'm telling the cops to stop stop-and-frisking me
But they're not listening, they're dog-whistling
So we cop-watch, cuz time's ticking like a stopwatch
They incentivize the rise of ghetto youth being penalized
It's even worse than you realize They demonize us and criticize us
At this point, there's nothing they can do to surprise us
They despise us, you can hear it in their rhetoric
Truly pathetic like involuntary celibates
Delicate snowflakes, it hurts them when we fight back
And strike back, right-wingers don't like that
Cuz equality for us, to them feels like oppression
I'm speaking with aggression cuz I'm trying to teach a lesson, any questions?

Everything that man made fails
They wanna do this like The Handmaid's Tale
They put their finger on the scale to lock me in a prison cell
Or throw me in a jail with no bail
Every time a Brown mom cries
It makes me wanna wipe the tears from her eyes
It's time to rise and really organize
Strategize against these right-wing lies

Everything that man made fails
They wanna do this like The Handmaid's Tale
For real

They're trying to take away a woman's right to choose
While they express misogynistic views in FOX News
Confuse and project, deny and deflect
Slut-shaming rape victims in an effort to protect
The pedophiles and rapists that they wanna elect
This is not hyperbolic yo, my facts are correct
Fact check every single line that I'm spittin'
Google it and you will see that I am not bullshittin'
White fragility, fragile masculinity
These "alpha-males" so afraid of femininity
They demagogue about Shariah over there
And try to pass extremist Christian laws over here
Those bathroom bills are ludicrous
They wanna legislate their way into a woman's uterus
It's the definition of hypocrisy
They say they want a small government but they're promoting a theocracy

Everything that man made fails
They wanna do this like The Handmaid's Tale
They put their finger on the scale to lock me in a prison cell
Or throw me in a jail with no bail
Every time a Black boy dies
I wanna wipe the tears from his mother's eyes
It's time to rise and really organize
Strategize against these right-wing lies

Written by:
Rene Roman

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