Ooo ya
Ooo ya
Ooo ya
Ooo, oh, oh
I been tryna find a way
I been tryna find it
I been tryna find a way
I been tryna find it
I been tryna find a way
I been tryna find it
I been tryna find another way to get away
Every time I turn around I see another face
On the news, another hashtag
Another video
A black man dead
Shot down on the ground, yeah
Everybody get your cameras out, yeah
Another run in with your thin blue line
Everybody grab a picket sign, but
Black lives don’t matter til they matter to the
Ones holding the guns, you better run
Lost lives, we cry unite
We fight, we rise up
Rise
Black girl, black girl gone again
Ain’t gon’ get no coverage
No breaking headlines on the news
Not canvassing the streets for you
Everybody wanna be like you
Everybody wanna do the things you do
They wanna walk like you, talk like you
Gotta rock them braids, them clothes, them shoes
M-i-s-s-i-n-g Ooo
The world don’t stop for missing you
So ghetto ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
Just another baby mama for a jigaboo
I been tryna find another way to get away
Good girls, bad girls, can’t escape
Don’t even make the news until they turn up dead
Nobody bats an eye
Our people hang their heads low
Stay outta trouble if your eyes ain’t blue, cuz
They’re never gonna find, never gonna find
They’re never ever never no, they’re never gonna find you
Lost lives, we cry unite
We fight, we rise up
Rise
Court cases, one race is guilty by the skin of your teeth
Might see another day, keep the coroner at bay
Block a bullet, but they’ll catch you by a rap sheet
Hair triggers on patrol to catch these niggas
Figures
Got the chalk outlines in the headlines ‘stead of
Bread lines, redlines
Gang Gang Gang signs
All a part of the game
Got a quote by MLK
Preach peace, turning murder into holiday
So we can celebrate how they take our blood
No justice cuz justice ain’t justice, it just is
Hanging on, got it hanging on, hanging on a pointed hood
Black man be the bigger man
Black man bet’ not take a stand unless the anthem plays
Then stand up in place, don’t forget your place, oh no
Black man, don’t disturb the peace
Black man, don’t get no release
Black man can’t get no release
Black man, Black man, Black man, Black man
I been tryna find another way to get away
Feeling like I’m running out of places I feel safe
And any minute, I’ll be outta time
Everybody grab a picket sign cuz
All lives don’t matter til they matter to the ones
Holding the guns
You better run
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