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We Could Be Free(Clean) - Ty Dolla $ign&Vic Mensa [00:00:00]
Written by:Victor Mensah&Larrance Dopson&Malik Yusef Jones&Glenda Proby&Tyrone Griffin Jr[00:00:01]
We could be free[00:00:15]
If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other[00:00:18]
One day I believe I'd learn[00:00:22]
To see my enemy as my brother[00:00:27]
Then we could be free truly[00:00:30]
And love could wash away our sorrows[00:00:35]
I'm not afraid to bleed[00:00:38]
If it means we'll make them better today not tomorrow[00:00:41]
One day I dream of telling my momma[00:00:48]
You ain't gotta work no more[00:00:50]
Same for my father born in Ghana down on that dirt road floor[00:00:52]
As far as he came I can't complain but pain is so subjective[00:00:56]
Spend so much time countin' issues I forget to count[00:00:59]
My blessings[00:01:03]
Watch my cousins back at home getting water out a well[00:01:03]
While I watch my brother stacking stone whippin' water by the scale[00:01:07]
Tryna' get a mill' on the other side[00:01:11]
They ain't got a meal we don't recognize we in heaven[00:01:13]
So we think we live in hell[00:01:15]
It's been getting kinda hard to tell[00:01:17]
But[00:01:19]
Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky[00:01:19]
Asking why I'm alive when the realest n**gas died[00:01:23]
And my pride won't let me give up lord as hard as I try[00:01:27]
In those times I try to remember[00:01:31]
That we could be free[00:01:34]
If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other[00:01:38]
One day I believe I'd learn[00:01:42]
To see my enemy as my brother[00:01:47]
Then we could be free truly[00:01:50]
And love could wash away our sorrows[00:01:55]
I'm not afraid to bleed[00:01:58]
If it means we'll make them better today not tomorrow[00:02:01]
We make a better today not tomorrow[00:02:19]
I don't want to wait for the afterlife[00:02:24]
I don't want a vigil by candle light[00:02:25]
I don't want to be the new sacrifice[00:02:27]
I don't want to turn into a poltergeist[00:02:29]
Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams[00:02:31]
Momma cryin' at an open casket[00:02:33]
Cold as ice in a suit 3 piece[00:02:35]
All dressed up for Sunday ma**es[00:02:37]
Pastor said put faith in god[00:02:39]
But faith alone can't make things right[00:02:41]
Who the f**k is you to patronize[00:02:43]
Somebody's son whose daddy died[00:02:45]
Why they flood baton rouge[00:02:48]
Why the city singing Alton's blues[00:02:49]
Why why why why[00:02:51]
I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news[00:02:53]
What the f**k I got to lose[00:02:55]
So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve[00:02:57]
You fools saying all lives matter[00:02:59]
But it's black lives you refuse include[00:03:01]
Blocked from the polls[00:03:03]
Locked in the hood trying to stop you from voting and stop you from growing[00:03:04]
And cops keep blowing and blowing[00:03:07]
Keep black people locked into cotton[00:03:09]
They don't want you to own but[00:03:10]
Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky[00:03:12]
Asking why I survived all the days that I could have died[00:03:15]
Who am I in my place[00:03:19]
To contemplate suicide[00:03:21]
In those times I try to remember[00:03:23]
That we could be free truly[00:03:26]
If we'd only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other[00:03:31]
But I believe I'd learn[00:03:34]
To see my enemy as my brother[00:03:39]
Then we could be free truly[00:03:42]
And we could wash away our sorrows[00:03:47]
I'm not afraid to bleed if it means[00:03:50]
We'll make them better today not tomorrow[00:03:55]
Somebody[00:04:01]
Make my enemy my brother[00:04:03]
Woah oh oh oh[00:04:09]
Make better today not tomorrow[00:04:11]
Make my enemy my brother[00:04:35]