Can We Live
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Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Can we live for our children
Live for the loved ones who trapped in the system
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Why die when we can live for ourselves
Cause we really in control just don't know it for ourselves
Can we live cause it gotta be a better way
I see the struggle everyday
Enough to make a tear drop fall on this very page
Must be the very thing that made Jesus cry
And for the little black boys that nobody cried for
Now they crying for us Making our struggle theirs cause they see it aint fair
All different women and men not caring about yo gear or your complexion of skin
Or where we live
Except that it's fucked up and
Hard to make it out unless you luck up
A athlete a entertainer or slanging til you come up
Some go to college now they in debt seem like a set up what's the point huh
But they ain't saying nothing but they ain't saying nothing
Everything that's done we doing it just to live
Robbing slanging and stealing doing it just to live
It's women having abortions doing it just to live
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Can we live for our children
Live for our loved ones who trapped in the system
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Why die when we can live for ourselves
Cause we really in control just don't know it for ourselves
We Been chewed up and spit out
Shot up and kicked out
Picked cotton and naked dog
Portrayed and portrayed not
It's fucked up how we get fucked over you see it now
Look around research for yourself my guy dot com
If a school give you education why we dumb dumb
And if a church for meditation why we don't think something
I love my brothers sisters mothers to fathers
Young ones to my lil ones i swear I'm your brother
I know i'm part of that blood that run through ya
So I'm a talk to my lil man about his future
I ain't gotta plant poison and self destruction in his brain
Just for him to maintain
It's insane if i do he'll be just another menace
Another name without a face
Another slap from a gavel just to end a case
Another number to a billion so can we live
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Can we live for our children
Live for our loved ones who trapped in the system
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Why die when we can live for ourselves
Cause we really in control just don't know it for ourselves
And now i want you to take the time to feel sorry for our brothers and sisters who got Caught up in the struggle
Trapped behind bars
A victom of the struggle
To blame without knowing is judging a book by its cover
And until you read the story of how one became
Don't say nothing Shhhhhhhhhh it's not your place
So can we live for them cant let them rott in a cage not knowing nothing
Because it's destroying they humanity
What about our humanity
We pursued like animals
Arrested like animals
Sentenced like animals
What about our humanity
We not animals we trying to live
Forced to survive and not live like usef said
I grab my head in frustration like usef did
So can we live
Without the man foot on my neck
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Can we live for our children
Live for our loved ones who trapped in the system
Can we live
Cause we die from gun shots
Die from certain cops die from certain plots
Can we live
Why die when we can live for ourselves
Cause we really in control just don't know it for ourselves
Writer(s): Jermaine Bullock, Juane Bullock
Copyright(s): Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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