Byron Henderson - Flowers In The Attic lyrics

You try to chase your dreams and people will
Chase you just to turn
Them into nightmares rest in Peace
Hana Kimura, Shad Gaspard
Nate Woods, George Floyd, Ahmaud
Aubrey, Leo Brooks, Philado
Castille, Sandra Bland,  Eric Garner
And Breonna Taylor rest in Peace to those
Whose deaths went unnoticed
All lives don't matter until
Ours do remember that

Yeah yeah

I've been gone for a long time
Locked away for a long grind
(yeah, yeah, yeah)
They say heroes don't die
But it's all I see looking in your eyes
Was it right place at the wrong time
Look, I've been gone for a long time
Locked away for a long grind
(whoa, whoa, whoa)
They say legends don't die
But it's all I see looking in your eyes
Another life taken, hope you don't mind

Look check

If you kneel
They'll show what kneeling gets you
Y'all play a part if you
Don't feel there's issues
Ain't no change of heart about to change
All the pain caused by these killings
Hope the karma's living with you
I was just busy
Recollecting on the last time
I was here fully all this time passed
And y'all still kill us just to pass time
You ain't here for me, uh
All this tension in the air has people
Praying while they're being preyed on
And even when you do the right thing
These white folks tell you that
Your way is wrong
So keep your well wishes unless
You're willing with help
With this outlandish refusal to see the truth
A firm believer in letting my
Actions be the proof
Behind me is the only flag
That I pledge allegiance to

I've been gone for a long time (long time)
Locked away for a long grind
(whoa, whoa, whoa)
They say legends don't die
But it's all I see looking in your eyes
Another life taken, hope you don't mind

Look, I've been gone for a long time
Locked away for a long grind
(yeah, yeah, yeah)
They say heroes don't die
But it's all I see looking in your eyes
Was it right place at the wrong time
Ain't no peace, everything ain't all fine

Tear gas striking fear into the fearless
Blacks lost at sea wondering their peers at
It's pure fact, the cycle is never ending
We riot and pillage over these killings
That's simply based on appearance
Imagine saying Blue Lives Matter
Like they exist
Y'all only made it up to mask opression
Nerves start to set in every
Time cops have a question
Evidence will show you all it
Takes is half a second
Put a knee on your neck and
Then expect you to keep still
The internet will kill you just as
Quick as the streets will
While some celebrities will stay muzzled
Similar to how Black mothers' screams
Stay muffled by lies told
Been seeing through the excuses with
Both of my eyes closed
Wonder if the end is near as
Soon as you spot strobe lights
Some are living double lives
Nah, you won't shoot a cop
But you done took a couple lives
They get paid for it, you just pay for it, mm
While whites march with rifles, unharmed
That anthem means more than your life do
This world is cursed by darkness
George screamed for his late mother
Before they off'd him
My baby wants me to live longer than her
Though I strongly disagree
I know she meant every word
So when I see these cops killing
Folks that look like me
I wonder if she worries who
The next one might be
All these flowers in the attic
For the lives taken so if you hear this
Fingers crossed for less time wasted
Because I notice I'm privy to
Getting lost in my thoughts
I came far because I fought
When I acknowledged the cost
So how you on the wrong side
High hopes you still have a
Spot in Heaven booked
Trying to outmaneuver the person that
Left the Devil shook
Made the reaper stutter in real life
Their worst fear is us showing
Them what this feels like lights dim