Can't Breathe Either - Ocean Wisdom

Police enforcement, racial fever

When they scarred my wrist it got deeper

From the Windrush plot it got peaker

When they shot Ahmaud it got realer

Then it brought back visions of Eric

Like, look at that cop and where his knees are

If you burn that house to the ground

I’mma fan that flame 'til they can’t breathe either

I seen my dealer, to the left of me there with a teacher

To the right of me there with a wise man

And we all fight for the same reason

Talk of conscience, I’ve got a conscience but

Look at that cunt and what his knee done

I heard that he went round town with a make

Whites great again cap on in the evening

I know that my grandma’s reeling

From wherever she’s watching this

I know that my dead friend’s screaming

Tryna tell me had to stop this shit

Give me back my freedoms

These shackles where the locks don’t fit

Eh, give me back my peoples

Or I’m coming with rocks and sticks

And they' comin' with shotties and AK’s

And we comin' with fingers that twitch

From a lifetime on the defensive

From some disgusting evil pigs

My nigga just came out the jailhouse

For one crime that he never even did

My next bro got locked 'cause of cocaine

Like they didn’t put the cocaine on his strip

And then you got man like OJ

Who don’t even wan' rep the ting

You corrupted the mind of our idols

And distructed the lives of our kids

And they don’t wanna see us in Parliament

And they don’t wanna see us in flicks

And they don’t wanna see us in public

And their whole body weight on our ribs

And we scream but they just keep leaning

And we plea but the glove don’t lift

And we beg and we cry and we suffer

And somehow, the grudge don’t shift

And it gets to the point of your lifetime

Where you clock that you’ve got ONE to live

So you grab suttin' heavy to the right of you

Oh, look what it is it’s a stick

And you run down the road to the protest

With so much hate you could trip

And you spray it at the nearest police

Like Liam Neeson but switched

And the cops come now they got a reason

And you’re locked up now you’re a myth

Oh, now you’re a crazy black man

Like you ain’t been tortured from a kid

Like, you ain’t been tortured from a embryo

Like you ain’t been tortured from a cell

Like, you ain’t had the fear of a cell in your mind

As a young black man that does well

Let alone a black man with some issues

Let alone a black man that fail

Meanwhile you got Andrew and dem man

Doing what they’re doing never went jail

Police enforcement, racial fever

When they scarred my wrist it got deeper

From the Windrush plot it got peaker

When they shot Ahmaud it got realer

Then it brought back visions of Eric

Like, look at that cunt and where his knees are

If you burn that house to the ground

I’mma fan that flame 'til they can’t breathe either