Setbacks

Once upon a time I was sleeping on the floor, wasn't long ago

Once upon a time I was sleeping on the floor, wasn't long ago

These days I've been on the go, on the road

This is all that I know, visions unfold

My past so vicious, I wish this on no one, ambitions are growing

You reap what your sowing, I'm deep in this work that I'm doing

I got the blessings, I got it all, yet I've still been stressing

I got anxiety's I felt depression

Sometimes it's hard to be present

Sometimes I'm hard on myself

And I feel this was all brought on myself

Then I break out of my cell

I've been to hell and back, shout out to Hellnback

Police and media vilify me

Me, what do you see

Guilty the plea, nothing in this life is free

I come the plains, I'm a cree

I've been set free

Imagine if you started at the bottom and you've risen from the ashes

I've been clashing with my past and I'm just being real

The cops coming for a native, and they shoot to kill

Something that we all know well

I check on my brothers, I ask are you well?

I ride for my people and you could put that on my will

The day that I'm feeling I'm losing my steering

Please put your hands on the wheel

This is for real

I come from a city where we getting murdered by cops

I don't wear my vest for props

Watch for the opps

These are indigenous thoughts

Where is the justice 'cause we don't see nothing

So we keep on shutting it down

I came for the king and his crown

Ask about me around town

I move in silence and I protect women from violence

All of my life I grew up hearing sirens

All of my friends have been dying

This is the genocide they've been denying

I lost my aunty to cancer

I wish I could call her and tell her I'm sorry for missing your passing

That was the last thing I wanted, but it's what I got

This is the life that I chose, used to the doubt

Fighting depression, the usual bout

You just don't know what I've been through this month

I feel like Rosa Parks fighting to get to the front

I feel the plight of my people before it's too late man

Equality all that we want, equality all that we want

Want

Equality all that we want, all that we want