Doesn't Feel Like

Yo, this can't be life

Though it's all we know

I've been feeling like

I don't feel at home

Look, love is priceless so it doesn't come cheaply here

We don't provide the other cheek because one cheek we share

On chic we care, the sheepskin the sheepish wear

And it's a crisis and that's just to be completely clear

Look, we had a young kid who went and modeled for H&M

Labeled him a monkey survivor to his Caucasian friend

Audacious and of hatred, of racist places, of racial blend

Pages of our patience regurgitate in this age again

Heard the plague is an ancient trend

Hear them fake when I take offense

Bending over backwards, my vertebrae really hates to bend

We're degraded and they relent, they created a way to render

Racism is real and still here today but we play pretend

H&M thing was a vulgar way for publicity

There's racist corporations, there's racist public that disagree

There's racist populations, let's face these problems officially

There's racism but only ten percent of it is visibly

I see the peril we only see what we feel visceral

We don't see the several deeds until we see referral

And the feed is where we'll need, receive the secrets barrelled

Because we don't know things only  until we see The Herald

So news outlets, we need you to deliver news

We need to know who's dyin' when we're sitting in our living rooms

And if it looms, it might bring pain to our healing wounds

If we were all to die only the fair row would be given tombs

Oh, though it's all we know

I wanna live my life

But I don't feel at home

And I know this can't be life

Although it's all we know

'Cause I've been feeling like

I got nowhere to go

Oh, yeah

Heard we were predators, I heard we were prey

I heard we were perverts

We're the last to see we're enslaved but then we're early for service

Where did we learn this colonialism early prepared us

Word is resurfaced the world has reverted where we refer to

The fear that we harbored, it's garnered till we're dearly departed

You'd swear we're retarded, we fled our homes to where we're regarded

As queer and discarded, I shed a tear, aware I'm disheartened

My flesh has been hardened, they suggested my message is jargon

They don't read the letters here, but still they let us hear

What's happening in Libya, slave trade, why does it sound familiar?

It's the same stage where we're made to feel inferior

And then we're named slaves, I'm amazed

Look what's happenin' in Charlottesville

We feel the degradation that the harlots feel

The largest thrills come from celebration of when we harbor skills

That we can use for fitting in, in truth, it's really sickening

The farthest we'll ever get from segregation is target drills

The news isn't really new,  really the same things

Different terminology now, they call ghettos the slave ships

But who debates it? I'll be Dr. Luther's shape shift

We move or stay stiff, 'cause how do we remove a racist?

For the life that I've been showed, I owe that to my mumsi

If what is mine is lined in gold, I hold that to my mum's feet

Was colorblind, but now we know the road back to our mum's breed

For all the times that I've been told to go back to my country

Oh, though it's all we know

I wanna live my life

But I don't feel at home

And I know this can't be life

Although it's all we know

'Cause I've been feeling like

I got nowhere to go

Oh, and, yo, this can't be life

Even though it's all we know

I wanna live my life

I wanna feel at home

And I know this can't be life

Even though it's all we know

'Cause I've been feeling like

Like I got nowhere to go, oh, yeah