I wish that people could understand that color of skin doesn't matter

Police killing innocent black men and my soul begins to shatter

I watch the news and again, another negro dies

Makes me believe that everything in the government is filled with lies

Why does it have to be the black man that suffers in this country?

Even in my own state, I feel like hiding or running

Everywhere I go, I'm treated like the villain

Thinking I will rob someone, when in reality I'm chillin'

Why can't I just live the life that God has simply givin'

Just the color of my skin is different?

Because of this, I have to work twice as hard for the goals I want to achieve

Which is hard, because in this generation, I'm struggling to believe

That things will be easier and that I will survive

Well, if I can't be accepted by my peers, then why am I alive?

I mean, to you, since I'm not white, automatically I ain't a person

So this is the life that you think I'm deserving

Cops shooting at me because I fit the crime description?

He gets tried for murder, but leaves with paid suspension?

If you ain't blind, you would understand that this is simple manslaughter

Did that cop ever think that this man might have a daughter?

Or a son or a wife that he works hard for every day?

After this, the cops show no remorse in any type of way

I continued to be scarred with every dead body that I saw

It's a scary feeling being unable to believe in the law

I mean, come on! The young bull was only 17!

He had ambitions of graduating college and making lots of green

Wanted to have a family and make his own story

Instead, he was shot down, leaving his body all gory

The part that breaks my heart is that it was by a cop

Everyday, because of this, I pray to God for the violence to stop

I can't even home without being scared to die

Because I'm afraid a cop might stop me and harass me before my eyes

If I even lift a finger, I be shot in the head

And I have reason to believe that the cops wanted me dead

And I don't know what scares me more about being shot in the brain

Either me being dead or my family unable to bear the pain

I live for more than myself, my family,friends, and God is my motivation

They're the reason why I fight to survive in this nation

And if they found out that a cop "accidentally" shot me cold

I can only imagine the pain that would bring to their soul

Everything I've talked about, I think about on the daily

Some of ya'll may agree with me, others may think I'm crazy

But it's times like this where I unleash my inner character

Because to the public, I'm just another Black man in America.