Jackie Hill Perry, Joseph Solomon - No Ways Tired lyrics

She said she was tired
Tired of mailing her sons away
Tired of guns summoning death
Telling the press
Too frustrated to yell and
It's messing with her
I remember when they told me
I wasn't the whole me i was a segment
She said it with tears with her
Head in my chest and
I felt the burden, I felt it burn up
I saw the fire
I saw the furnace, who turned it higher?
I heard and turned and grabbed some dirt
She said that my son's inside it
It's hard to pray and say the name of
What 81 invited but who will listen?
This prison system is lynching my babies
His bail is higher than what put
Him inside and it's crazy
Is he a colleague from
Riker's Island with violence
Or maybe he gotta die to be safe
And I'm still alive, let us pray
Life is getting harder, God I need thee
Gotta walk on water where you are
Oh God I need thee god I'm losing focus
Hold me close because I need thee
Never let me go, oh don't I know it
God I need thee

He said he was woke he tired of sleeping
He tired of weeping for bodies
Nobody try believing the body is blind
I see it he said it with red in his eye
The color that smothered his
Brother under that sheet
He mumbles something I seen
The other day when I was walking with him
Through the park with lots of children
Dogs of all civilians no guards to stop and
Frisk or draw revolvers, all the privilege
We all so different, walks beside a Christian
Can't decide the difference
I provide a bridge
He frowns and says he wants to hate 'em
Put a noose around his neck and
Text him "how's it hanging?"
Treat him like his skin's the curse of Ham
He knows it's Satan
When the press becomes oppressive
It's us trading places
So he bids him grace and praises

I can't get tired i can't get tired
Life is getting harder, God I need thee
Gotta walk on water where you are
Oh God I need thee god I'm losing focus
Hold me close because I need thee
Never let me go, oh don't I know it
God I need thee

She said she was tired