T.I. ft. Eric Bellinger, Killer Mike - How I Feel Lyrics

(David, David Banner, David-)
(Ain't the way I planned it)
Oh, no, no (oh)
If you could only know my feelings (yeah)
Then you would know how much

Look (hey)
Fuck all that protestin' and marchin' peacefully (yeah)
They still gon' find a way to handle us egregiously (oh)
Legally, if I may get this shit off my mind now (now)
We born in the battlefield, can't call no timeout
Every time now, it's another one of us lyin' out (hey)
Cryin' out, "I can't breathe" until he dies out (oh, no)
Make me ask myself, what would you die about?
I doubt if a nigga been bangin' since junior high
Let 'em fly, opposition resemblin' you and I (sheesh)
Wrist crackin' give a fuck about it (give a fuck about it)
They never will 'til they start pickin' up a couple bodies (couple bodies)
When we got killed, well, there's some hours, scattered rain shower
The pain hurt (oh) but the cold heart, fact of the matter, it's gettin' worse
Damn, if I could wish upon a star
I'll send a special bullet everywhere you hateful bastards are
Pull a string like a Gibson guitar, 'way from afar
Slow motion watch it enter your temple and exit your jaw, hmm
Send you all to Hell with a scar, a conversation piece
Hope it maybe leads to a joke when you and Satan speak
Yeah, you was patronizin' us, we waitin' patiently
Well, you'll prolly get your life to trade a day with me
Call that shit a eye for a eye, my nigga, by any means (sheesh)
Had extended clips before skinny jeans (yeah)
Now bow and arrows at cop cars with Kerosene, that's how I'm feelin'

How we feel for me
To be all alone (that's how I'm feelin', shoot)
All alone (fuck that shit, that's how I'm feelin')
How we feel for me (ain't no God to calm me down now, how I'm feelin')
To be all alone (shoot)
All alone (now fuck that shit, that's how I'm feelin')
How we feel

I had a dream me and King saw Zimmerman (Zimmerman)
We laid low, masks up in a rental van (rental van)
He killed a child, body was stiff and twisted, man
A mother cried, only one way to fix it, man
How long 'fore the people in the street
Get tired of the evil, say, "Fuck that"? (Fuck that)
How long will they kneel to heel of the state
With a foot in the face 'fore they bust back? (Bust back)
Won't be long 'fore agents of the state get ate like steak
'Cause the people too strong (too strong)
Rapture's comin' one Sunday, it's blood by Monday
I promise I won't be long (it won't be long)
Lame nigga, same nigga, found out crackers had money on his head
Lame nigga, same nigga, callin' me like, "Michael, I'm scared"
I hug that nigga like Michael did Fredo
Kept it G like Mike Hatle
Excessive force, leave a nigga no choice
But a nigga shoot his shot, fatal (fatal)
Bad boy, bad boy, tell me what you gon' do
When the police kill your mama? (Your mama)
Fuck that, I follow Obama when he kill the crackers
That killed Breonna (Breonna)
I take that charge, stick out my chest
Confess to judge, Your Honor (Your Honor)
I'm the truth, my ancestors pray for your honour
And fuck your mama

How we feel for me (that's how I'm feelin')
To be all alone (that's how I'm feelin', shoot)
All alone (fuck that shit, that's how I'm feelin')
How we feel for me (ain't God to calm me down, how I'm feelin')
To be all alone (shoot)
All alone
How we feel

To the brawl finished, but we all been it
Niggas superhero, can you call any?
Ninety-nine problems, never solved any
But we got the work, then they all been it
Keepin' law and order, it's at tall order
Murder after murder, people y'all killing
Our aunts, uncles, our grandchildren
Can't ask for it, gotta take that shit

Ain't no repentance, eye for an eye, we want our vengeance
Life for a life, he kill your fiancée, kill his wife
Same for his father, generations of sons and daughters
It's hard to stomach, they say I sound like Ali Mohammed
I say you got me, we livin' under these fuckin' Nazis
What you expected? People riot, then you respected?

It's a split decision, gotta pick a side with this division
But we ain't fit for livin', we can't protect our women and children
Man, we get sick, that Jake gon' give us Clorox and Penicillin (ha)
Experiment in Tuskegee, showed me you would deceive me (forreal)

As the city burned down and the night fall
'96 Impala, we just bouncin' like it's Roundball
This ain't the '90s, and the youngings, I ain't scared, y'all
The water boys, they might shoot back at the red dawgs (oh)
I tell 'em plot plans, strategize, organize (yeah)
Immobilize a secret army and stay unified

How we feel for me (that's how I'm feelin')
To be all alone (that's how I'm feelin', alone, shoot)
All alone, yeah (fuck that shit, that's how I'm feelin')
How we feel for me (ain't no God to calm me down, how I'm feelin')
To be all alone (shoot)
All alone (now fuck that shit, that's how I'm feelin')

How we feel for me (how I feel, how I feel, how I feel, how I feel)
(I mean the truth is)
To be all alone (I'm a human, you a human)
(Skin color aside, riddle me this)
All alone, yeah (how dare I speak pace to a maniac?)
How we feel for me (how I feel, how I feel, how I feel, how I feel)
(The fuck does that make me?)
(I mean)
To be all alone (you motherfuckers can bend your knees man)
(Fold your hands and your Bibles)
All alone (and pray as much as you motherfuckin' want but)

The art of not fightin' back was brought to us by Christianity
That was given to us by our oppressor
So you continue to follow that, you continue to follow them
I be goddamned
I tell you what, nigga, you see me down bad, motherfucker on my ass
Nigga, don't fail me, nigga, help me, nigga
I'm tellin' you that, nigga, while I'm right here, nigga
Nigga, I'd do the same for you
No cap, nigga
That bullshit ain't 'bout nothin'