Stand for Something

You can feel my rage, yeah, I'm red hot

You either get my point or you get point blanked shot

'Cause I forgot, you see, black lives as nuisances

Broke your own laws, suspended the constitution

Fueled by hate, strapped up, ready for war

But mama told me love's the only thing worth fighting for

Uh, but I ain't felt hope in a long time

Black lives ain't made nothing in a long time

So I'm all up on your face, on your palate

How it tastes? Will it take another life to go to waste?

For y'all to get up to date with the state of inequality

Between race, but it's not about black and white

It's about all humans gettin' basic human rights

So I swallow my pride and look you in the eye

Give you my time even if I never change nothing

My people always equal, so we always stand for something

Stand for something

We stand for something

We stand for something

We stand for something

Knock, knock, standing at your door like Jehovah Witness

I could be the greatest just like Hova spit it

But I ain't give a fuck if you ain't ready to listen

'Cause our people losing lives, yeah, fuck the system

The government ain't never gave a fuck about us

They stole our youth, so now we drowning in the fountain

Black voices never heard upon your TV

Black thoughts caught your ears

So now you motherfuckers hear me

Howard saved so many lives with gun laws

But I'm shootin' holes like pool, damn right I saved my black balls

Please won't you Aborigines be polite?

Only white lives worth saving and that ain't right

So fuck it, this discussion is disgusting

Mind racing next racists wrists I'll slit and have gushing

Now I'm locked in a cell and my education means nothing

Even though they said, "Sorry, it never changed nothing"

It changed nothing

It changed nothing

I stand for something

Stand for something

Aye

Over half my peers more likely to see prison

Than to get an education, how's that life worth living?

How's that life worth living?

We stand for something