I can't breathe

Yet the rope still tightens

I can't breathe

Yet a malice still looms

Like the gallows which threaten

My life, death laughs in my face

Says my name

 

Breonna, Eric, Michael, George,

Names forgotten or ignored

I will not equivocate, nor excuse

The life and liberty they have taken from you

 

Till the day comes

Where justice does not discriminate

Where all people are free to speak

To deliver a message

And be heard, respected

 

The town is burning

And our souls - ignite a fire

So strong, unleashes a power

Forged in love and tears, falling

But not in vain

 

It's time to rise, to raise our voices,

To lift our heads up high, it's time

We need not hide our skin,

Though masks may cover our faces,

Though the past may always leave traces

Of the pain the hurt the unfathomable,

Where a life is lost

In the age of scapegoats

hate is the guilty one