Peace/War - SHAD

Clever men and our violence

Silence is when we shoot from the lip to quiet them

We talk nonviolence and stay silent when it suits

It’s all violence at the root

But tyrants aren’t tyrants in group

Who started the shooting?

Who knows?

We were born inside of this troop

Taught to shoot as youth

Taught it’s just humans being human

But the truth is… Shoot (get it? Get it?)

The truth is…

We don’t know what the truth is…

(Get it, got it, good!)

Yeah, yeah

One time for the people in my bloodline

A proud son of the people of the sunshine

My love letter to my people on the frontline

Yours truly, even if my pen was unsigned

Know it, the unnamed poet

My life is just a link in the chain and my chain glowin'

Me and the beat is thinkin' the same, she say «go» and

I just sprint in my lane, Usain, they can’t slow him, oh

My whole team move at light speed

But so smooth, the whole movement Tai Chi

I said my whole team move at light speed

But we so smooth, the whole movement Tai Chi

We strike back with their force

They fight, we get more strength like Air Force

No Nikes, I mean no Air Force

More like peace

Soul, body, and psyche, yo

Now put this beat on for my people trying to keep on lights

And Nissans with the lease on tight

Black folk like Deshaun and Keyshaun

White folk get your dijon and your quiche on, like whoa

Listen, this is like a «thank you» you can dance to

Jam hot as a sand dune in Cancun

Show you how the fam moves, how a champ do

I can’t lose when I’m kicking it, Man U

See they like me 'cause I ain’t the type to lick a shot, still

If the shooter make me shoot it I can’t miss the shot

Pistol cocked, more like missile launch, chill

And it piss 'em off how they can’t piss him off

Killer cross

My whole team move at light speed

But so smooth, the whole movement Tai Chi

I said my whole team move at light speed

But we so smooth, the whole movement Tai Chi

We strike back with their force

They fight, we get more strength like Air Force

No Nikes, I mean no Air Force

More like peace

See, the fool said

They see people run, so they run

They see people duck, so they duck

But these bullets aren’t real

Wanna feel?

They can’t kill us

'Cause they can’t see us

'Cause they only see fear

They can’t kill us

'Cause they can’t see us

'Cause they only see fear

Wanna feel?

They can’t kill us

'Cause they can’t see us

'Cause they only see fear

And we’re fearless

Wanna feel?

But they said

«no…No…NO!»

We know life in its sacredness

We know life 'cause we’ve taken it

You can’t know life without death

We know war, we know best

We know life in its sacredness

We know life 'cause we’ve taken it

You can’t know life without death

We know war, we know best

Some wounds don’t heal you wanna feel?

You don’t know the shame or the thrill

You don’t know pain, you claim to be real

But you never killed and you never will

You can’t know life without death

We know war, we know best

We know life in its sacredness

We know life 'cause we’ve taken it

Blood and guns and blood and cum

My Bloody gums, don’t mind my tongue

If blood is wine I’m bloody drunk

And I’m divine, I know life

I just don’t like sleep is all

It’s too close to death

So I’ll keep from fallin' asleep

I wanna keep it all

I keep a weapon on me

You can keep your calm

I’ve been weak and wrong

I’ve been ceap and a cheat, and deceitful, and evil

See I know life

«These bullets aren’t real, wanna feel?»

I wanna be numb, gimme the numbers

I live in a slum, I want slumber

They only lift a thumb to keep us under

I know life, I know death

You never shot and stopped breath

See I know regrets, I know debts

You might be right but you know less

I know fights, I know stress

When you can’t forget and clean the mess up

When it’s fact, it’s done

It’s true than an uzi weighs a ton in the heat of the sun

Look, some wounds don’t heal, you wanna feel?

You don’t know the shame or the thrill

You don’t know pain, you claim to be real

But you never killed and you never will

You can’t know life without death

We know war, we know best

We know life in its sacredness

We know life 'cause we’ve taken it

And you can’t own what you’ve never known

So I’ll take yours, get shown what it’s like

This death, this life, this fight is real

Some wounds don’t heal

Wanna feel?

«Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God»