Here, take this photograph
Tell me what it is you see
When you look at me
Deep into the photography
I don't really need you sympathy
Just tell me your thoughts
Have I got what they got
And is it a plot of the knot?
Am I not like you
Because I do what I do?
Who knew that I could loose a few of you
Because I bleed blue?
But it's true
I know, because I see it every day
As I work and I sleep the day away
Like you I have pain
And like you I have fear
Can I pay all of the bills
Just to make it trough the year
Will I make it home alive
Should I pray to the sky
Every day and every night
While I hold you by my side?
But in the public eye
I don't even have a heart
A robot of the system
Moving only when I'm told to start
Rip apart my art
I'm strong like a flower bullet
You've got it all wrong
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human
Call me a vet like a soldier, Green Beret
21 guns salute you don't wanna see the day
In the constant war zone
In the home of the brave
Where they hate the police
Until they're saving the day
I got kids like you
A mortgage like you
So blue life matters
So does yours to
Our separation and divide
Open you eyes
If you cut us all open
We're the same inside
The only difference is
I run to the gunfight
Give peace when it's chaos
And the people don't act right
But I'm under scrutiny
For trying to protect me
Pull the pistol and then shoot them
For trying to contest me
I got a quick second
To make a deadly decision
The media portrayed me
Like I kill for a living
Like I'm cold with no hearth
A brain with no thoughts
A body with no feeling
A life with no cause
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human
I'm damned if I do
And damned if I don't
It's like every single time I say
What's on my mind they go for my throat
They spew evil words
If you are absurd
Always grinding, grinning and killing
My soul with these verbs
Hold me down
Like I can't gasp for air
I'm closed inside of a box
Like I'm inside Fort Knox
Every time that I'm there,
I don't know why they think
That I'm different from you
All that's true
Is that I'm a human too
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human
Like you breathe, I breathe
And like you see, I see
And like you need, I need
And like you bleed I bleed.
Don't treat me like an object,
I'm tested and proven
Mind, hearth and Soul
I'll always be a human