J. Powell - When Living Is A Threat Remixed (feat. V Torres)

A hard knock at the door shook my eyes open
We didn't answer but behind it was about 5 of them
My father's whispers to my brothers
That we need to leave
We went for the window but a bullet shot through his knees
We screamed as the ice team breached
I locked the bedroom door as blood flowed underneath
My brothers said open it and I said we need to go
I went through the window but he froze and stayed home
I heard my brothers scream as he was pulled away
That sound is a pain that I still can't explain
Why are we looked at as a fatal disease
When the cure is a United American Dream
And If I was white that this wouldn't happen to me
Guess I realized the flag isn't meant for me
I guess my life only matters to me
Living another day
Freedom looks differently
This may be my story
But I'm speaking for you
Speaking for you
Society is more color blind than you thought
Today I guess we forgot about the Kerner Report
Cities raised their voice through the violence
After a Cop killed a black who was defiant
They rioted to burn the racism in the ground
They try to silence our voice and ignore that we have a sound
Tired fighting just to live good life and
Treated equal is a mirage and they lied then
The money decides and divides us all
Eliminate the middle class and watch it all fall
They want to make it great again
Incarcerate em all until they can be slaves again
It's different racism now. it's systematic
Hit they're wallet and what watch em all go into havoc
Let em kill each other watch em go it a panic
Make em go extinct that always the plan
Living another day
Freedom looks differently
This may be my story
But I'm speaking for you
Speaking for you

Written by:
Jerrell Powell, Veronica Torres

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