You need to understand that my fate has caused me to bleed Usually my voice has been silenced throughout history But it's become an artillery To you, comes the delivery I'll paint you a thousand portraits with all this gloomy imagery I am the underdog, not savage, I used to live civilly But everything that's been important Has been ripped from me So understand how they imprison me My plan was never a mystery I wanted to live a happy life 'cause everyone lives so simply I'm not asking for your sympathy, I need you to see me equal And not just me, every one of my type of people And my people doesn't involve A certain race, creed, or a type of religion It goes out to the hearts and minds That were always wishing That one day, they could escape The very prison that kept them contained So hard to flourish when from the very seed You were surrounded by pain No matter how hard I would try to get a taste of the rain More trials and tribulations is the only thing I would gain It became so hard to sustain, I can feel a mental breakdown It's all scrambled in my brain, I jump at the lightest sounds When once, I remember being so bright, I said I would astound I've just witnessed so much lost life Eventually a soul gets beat down I've been oppressed in the stress, but the worst is the persecution Always keep your head up, but I don't feel there is a solution When corruption is demolished and humanity had improvement So I'm stuck in this setting While the rest of the world keeps moving I'm a Kunta Kinte, Malcom X, Chief Sitting Bull, Louis Riel Rosa Parks, Anne Frank, Trayvon Martin, Maher Arar Edward Saeed, Ramarley Graham Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi Che Guevara, MLK, Bouazizi, Rachel Corrie