Well, I could never imagine the pain in the mother's hearts
When life takes a turn for the worse
And creates another canvas that will never be completed
I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated
My energy's depleted but I want to stand and fight
Swinging with the spirits that have traveled back and through the light
I feel the tears and depression
Fears and aggression
Woven in society, from years of oppression
The violence is normalized, silence is horrifying
The truth is denied and the fact is that more are dying
You don't have to tell how you feel
Cause I can hear it in the cries
And it's hard to listen- but listen
Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships
So the hearts conditioned to condition the air when the air that conditions keep cool
But the more tears sometimes clear the vision [?]
Now what I see been a long time coming
The tribe running, rocking, reaching new peaks
So that them young'uns can finally summit
Climbing high above and then fly from it, up to the skies
Over standing the corruption and the deconstructing the lies
I've seen this country decline
Try to keep discussions confined
Hide the underside, over extract, and try to undermine
Damn, but I still believe in the truth whether as an MC in the booth or a PhD in a suit
Yo, when we yelling protest [?] feeling this peaceful
We profess, we pro-testify the will of the people, tell them what they must know
Turn it up loud, when we bust flows, not in hushed tones, speaking up, let the trust grow
Now, you ain't gotta tell me how you feel
Cause I can see it in your eyes
You don't gotta tell me that the pain is real
Cause I can hear it in your cry
Well, it's the type of heartbreak that takes more than tears and time to stitch up
And heal wounds and heal the scars that leave behind
A separation from the fam, segregation on the land
It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands
It's all divide and conquer, colonize the slaughter
Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers
Now we see the daughters that are disappearing quickly
See it through cracks while ignoring all the history
Government's been scooping babies way before the 60's
When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery
So now you see the mystery is really not too complicated
Justice is unequally distributed, my observation
Money to be made while the kids are steady [?]
Splitting up a family has now become an occupation
And it's been part of the Occupation
Since residential schools enforced starvation
It's a nation with racism
Here since the start of it
Hard to let go cause it's carved in the heart of it
Relation to the land and our rise, we're a part of it
Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it
And you don't have to tell me how you feel
Cause I can see it in your eyes
And they don't have to prove to me that pain is real
Cause I can hear it in their cries