Crooked I - I Can't Breathe lyrics
[Crooked I - I Can't Breathe lyrics]
As you can see right now
Times Square is covered with
Protestors there's about 20
Riot cops over there other groups have joined
And are converging here in
Times Square today is
The ceremony for the lighting of the
Rockefeller tree and there's police officers
Swarming everywhere to make
Sure the protestors do not
Disrupt that ceremony that
They're having there's hundreds
And hundreds
Of protestors right now
In the streets right now
Blocking all traffic
A huge number an announcement that
The cop who killed
Eric Garner was not indicted
By the police department
They tell me I'm resistin' arrest
But I'm only protectin' my breath
I can't breathe
The cops hate a black man to death
They tell me that mentality left
It didn't leave
See bein' black come with a price
Sometimes we gotta pay with our life
Our family grieves
The grand jury never indicts
The grand dragon's wearin' his white
True indeed
No justice, no peace again
I won't trust the police again
Another black man murdered
In the streets by police
He won't hug his own niece again
So what's a black mom tell her son?
"They might hate the mere sight of you
So no, I can't buy that pellet gun
They might try to Tamir Rice you"
I guess the Devil's job is never done
Respect the value of my life too
For me change may never come
Cause I can't change into a white dude
Cops workin' with the prosecutor
Prosecutor manipulate the grand jury
Grand jury say it's no indictment
Send the community into levels past fury
Protestors on the sidewalk
They say Eric Garner was choked here
I say we burn this whole shit down
But won't nothin' change when
The smoke clear
That's cause the system is broken
Another victim of a chokin'
By a modern day lynch mob
The cops probably wished they
Could've roped him
How many tears gotta fall?
How many peers gotta fall?
The cops kill instead of capture
A black man of that stature
How many fears were involved?
How many cheered what they saw?
See, equality's the problem
How many years 'til it's solved?
I think somebody want a race riot
But hip-hop isn't swayed by it
Too many black rappers sellin' out
You white rappers shouldn't stay quiet
(Put your hands behind your back) I
Can't breathe, I can't breathe
I can't
Breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe
I can't breathe, I can't breathe
I can't breathe
They tell me I'm resistin' arrest
But I'm only protectin' my breath
I can't breathe
The cops hate a black man to death
They tell me that mentality left
It didn't leave
See bein' black come with a price
Sometimes we gotta pay with our life
Our family grieves
The grand jury never indicts
The grand dragon's wearin' his white
True indeed
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
Times Square is covered with
Protestors there's about 20
Riot cops over there other groups have joined
And are converging here in
Times Square today is
The ceremony for the lighting of the
Rockefeller tree and there's police officers
Swarming everywhere to make
Sure the protestors do not
Disrupt that ceremony that
They're having there's hundreds
And hundreds
Of protestors right now
In the streets right now
Blocking all traffic
A huge number an announcement that
The cop who killed
Eric Garner was not indicted
By the police department
They tell me I'm resistin' arrest
But I'm only protectin' my breath
I can't breathe
The cops hate a black man to death
They tell me that mentality left
It didn't leave
See bein' black come with a price
Sometimes we gotta pay with our life
Our family grieves
The grand jury never indicts
The grand dragon's wearin' his white
True indeed
No justice, no peace again
I won't trust the police again
Another black man murdered
In the streets by police
He won't hug his own niece again
So what's a black mom tell her son?
"They might hate the mere sight of you
So no, I can't buy that pellet gun
They might try to Tamir Rice you"
I guess the Devil's job is never done
Respect the value of my life too
For me change may never come
Cause I can't change into a white dude
Cops workin' with the prosecutor
Prosecutor manipulate the grand jury
Grand jury say it's no indictment
Send the community into levels past fury
Protestors on the sidewalk
They say Eric Garner was choked here
I say we burn this whole shit down
But won't nothin' change when
The smoke clear
That's cause the system is broken
Another victim of a chokin'
By a modern day lynch mob
The cops probably wished they
Could've roped him
How many tears gotta fall?
How many peers gotta fall?
The cops kill instead of capture
A black man of that stature
How many fears were involved?
How many cheered what they saw?
See, equality's the problem
How many years 'til it's solved?
I think somebody want a race riot
But hip-hop isn't swayed by it
Too many black rappers sellin' out
You white rappers shouldn't stay quiet
(Put your hands behind your back) I
Can't breathe, I can't breathe
I can't
Breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe
I can't breathe, I can't breathe
I can't breathe
They tell me I'm resistin' arrest
But I'm only protectin' my breath
I can't breathe
The cops hate a black man to death
They tell me that mentality left
It didn't leave
See bein' black come with a price
Sometimes we gotta pay with our life
Our family grieves
The grand jury never indicts
The grand dragon's wearin' his white
True indeed
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe