Free - Derek Minor

They gone tell me be quiet, they gone say I’m stirring up the pot

They gone say I’m too emotional, they gone say I need to calm down

Usually I hold it in, I don’t wanna mess the paper up

I don’t wanna be too aggressive, that could make you uncomfortable

But do you know what that feel like, handcuffed scared for you life

Pray to God he ain’t had a bad day, this could be your very last night

This so exhausting, Lord knows we tired

They say wait for the facts like I can’t believe my eyes

Wake me up from this nightmare.

Tell me that this ain’t true

Do black men have rights, Do black men bear the image of God too

Cause if we do, then tell me, why we always get shot down

Why we can’t get a trial date, Why is death the only answer now

I know that it’s good cops, word to officer Fitzgerald at my church

But tell me why the bad cops never get to see the justice system work

But I know the Lord still just, and I know he still love us

But I’m starting feel in America

The justice system means just us

And I don’t have no explanation, I’m just hurt

And I know that it’s complicated, but it still hurts

If we supposed to be free, why it feel like chains hanging on me x8

Listen homie keep your head up, yea I know you prolly fed up

It feel like they ain’t hearing us, feel like they only fearing us

All I know is that we hear today, there’s a God and he feel our pain

All I know is every time we pray, he’ll be there to wipe our tears away

We are more than criminals, we are more than imbeciles

Our fathers ain’t all dead beats, we ain’t all thugging in the streets

The Land of opportunity is only for the ones with opportunity

We just trying to catch up, years after slavery

All that I’m saying, is it’s complicated and I don’t get all of it

But all that I know is this pain in my heart, oh yea I feel all of it

I know the Lord still just, and I know he still love us

But I’m starting feel in America

The justice system means just us

And I don’t have no explanation, I’m just hurt

And I know that it’s complicated, but it still hurts

If we supposed to be free, why it feel like chains hanging on me x8