Mars Davis - Me at the Zoo

They calling us animals
Animals
They treat us like animals
Animals
They kill us like animals
Animals
It's me at the zoo
Zoo
Zoo
Zoo
They calling us animals
Animals
They treat us like animals
Animals
They kill us like animals
Animals
It's me at the zoo
Zoo
Father are we an experiment is it in my head
Why they stuff us in buildings and call it a project
Why they stick us with syphilis where was they conscience
Why they killing our children like it's a contest
Terrorist no bomb threats
I'm terrorized cuz im Black
I'm reading right through these politicians
While they weighing our future no Pyrex
I'm watching it on Facebook I'm wondering if I'm next
Christian educated professional, but I'm Black
And I'm from the hood, went to public schools and I rap
Can you blame if I'm paranoid let me take yall a little while back
To 2010, me and a couple friends
Going to Florida from Michigan
Through Georgia in a rickety van
Chris driving and we swerving
woah
I was sleeping chris woke me up said get my wallet the police need it
So I do it without hesitation the officer reaching for his piece
pointed at me screaming
I'm going to Jesus is what I was thinking
They calling us animals
Animals
They treat us like animals
Animals
They kill us like animals
Animals
It's me at the zoo
Zoo
Zoo
Zoo
They calling us animals
Animals
They treat us like animals
Animals
They kill us like animals
Animals
It's me at the zoo
Zoo
Im watching the news it depress me got me feeling very heavy
Lead in my hometown's water got me worried about my family
Snyder cutting cost Snyder cutting corners and it ended very badly
I know the lord is my shepherd but I feel stuck in this valley
If we were white and affluent would this ever had happened
Was this an experiment like syphilis history showing us patterns
Do our lives really matter Did all lives ever matter
From the beginning our black bodies have been treated and traded as cattle
We were taught we were lesser we taught they were better
And all of us got this message You Think that it ain't gone affect us
Is that why they never protect us
Put us in boxes and block us like Tetris
We built this whole country they but they want us to exit
They calling us animals
Animals
They treat us like animals
Animals
They kill us like animals
Animals
It's me at the zoo
Zoo
Zoo
Zoo
They calling us animals
Animals
They treat us like animals
Animals
They kill us like animals
Animals
It's me at the zoo
Zoo

Written by:
Jerell Erves, Marceil Davis

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