[00:10.30]Yeah, we could be free
[00:18.50]If we only knew
[00:19.75]We were slaves to the pains of each other
[00:23.07]One thing, I believe I could learn
[00:27.23]To see my enemy as my brother
[00:30.95]Then we could be free, truly
[00:35.24]And love could wash away our sorrows
[00:38.70]I'm not afraid to bleed
[00:41.22]If it means
[00:43.05]We'll make a better today not tomorrow
[00:47.84]One day I dream of telling my momma
[00:50.49]"You ain't gotta work no more"
[00:52.03]Same for my father, born in Ghana
[00:54.53]Down on that dirt road floor
[00:56.34]Far as he came I can't complain
[00:58.41]But pain is so subjective
[01:00.15]Spend so much time countin' issues
[01:01.99]I forget to count
[01:03.20]My blessings
[01:04.28]Watch my cousins back at home
[01:05.93]Getting water out a well
[01:07.48]While I watch my brother stacking stone
[01:09.80]Whippin' water by the scale
[01:11.51]Tryna' get a mill' on the other side
[01:13.34]They ain't got a meal
[01:14.44]We don't recognize we in heaven
[01:16.09]So we think we live in hell
[01:17.48]It's been getting kinda hard to tell
[01:19.51]But
[01:20.20]Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky
[01:23.52]Asking why I'm alive when the realest ****** died
[01:27.48]And my pride won't let me give up
[01:29.78]Lord as hard as I try
[01:31.62]In those times I try to remember
[01:34.73]That we could be free
[01:38.76]If we only knew
[01:39.66]We were slaves to the pains of each other
[01:42.98]One thing, I believe if I could learn
[01:47.11]To see my enemy as my brother
[01:50.82]Then we could be free, truly
[01:54.93]And love could wash away our sorrows
[01:59.09]I'm not afraid to bleed
[02:01.22]If it means
[02:03.12]We'll make a better today not tomorrow
[02:07.57]'Nough, 'nough, 'nough
[02:19.23]We'll make a better today not tomorrow
[02:23.87]I don't want to wait for the afterlife
[02:25.93]I don't want a vigil by candle light
[02:27.98]I don't want to be the new sacrifice
[02:29.92]I don't want to turn into a poltergeist
[02:32.00]Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams
[02:33.86]Momma cryin' at an open casket
[02:35.86]Cold as ice in a suit, 3 piece
[02:37.96]All dressed up for Sunday masses
[02:40.04]Pastor said put faith in God
[02:41.98]But faith alone can't make things right
[02:43.99]**** is you to patronize
[02:45.92]Somebody's son whose daddy died?
[02:48.55]Why they flood Baton Rouge?
[02:49.96]Why the city singing Alton's blues?
[02:52.12]Why, why, why, why?
[02:53.47]I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news
[02:56.02]What the **** I got to lose?
[02:57.57]So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve
[02:59.88]You fools, saying "all lives matter"
[03:01.91]But it's black lives you refuse include
[03:03.99]Blocked from the polls
[03:05.19]Locked in the hood, trying to stop you
[03:06.53]From voting and stop you from growing
[03:08.08]And cops keep blowing and blowing
[03:09.56]Keep black people locked into cotton
[03:11.02]They don't want you to own, but
[03:12.34]Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky
[03:15.74]Asking why I survived all the days
[03:18.30]That I could've died
[03:19.82]Who am I in my place
[03:21.56]To contemplate suicide?
[03:23.78]In those times I try to remember
[03:26.64]That we could be free, truly
[03:31.09]If we'd only knew
[03:32.15]We were slaves to the pains of each other
[03:35.20]One thing, I believe I could learn
[03:39.18]To see my enemy as my brother
[03:42.84]Then we could be free, usually
[03:47.25]And love could wash away our sorrows
[03:50.97]I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means
[03:56.03]Some better todays than tomorrow
[03:58.63]'Cause only love (tear somebody)
[04:03.68]Love (make my enemies my brothers)
[04:07.50]Love (woah woah woah)
[04:11.61]Make a better today not tomorrow
[04:15.60]Oh, yeah, oh oh oh, yeah, oh oh oh, yeah
[04:27.13]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah
[04:35.31]Make my enemies my brothers
[04:41.34]Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah