Silva, RMS, Chiara Clifford - Common Ground lyrics

I can′t feel it can't believe it
My mind′s going numb from
Disbelief as I'm reading my heart's reeling
I can′t breathe as I reach for
My phone so I can holla at my boys
I′m making noise for my heathens
And you're screaming all lives matter
But what′s the meaning?
Are you worried about your family
And how police treat em?
Are you worried about your son not
Coming home in the evening?
Nah, you don't know pain until you′ve
Watched your brothers get beaten
By the people who we only
Need for one simplе reason
Policeman are mеant to protect but look
At how they treat them
They're grabbing and ramming them in
Jail like they′re cattle to their feeding
You'll slap them in shackles


Without any fucking reasoning
I've been begging and pleading, been
Screaming can you just please
Leave our aunties and uncles and
Brothers and sisters in peace
But police don′t give a fuck about
Our cries and our pleas
Only time they′re taking a knee is
If it means you can't breathe now tell em

We won′t back down we won't back down
You cannot stop us now our voice is too loud
The peace you claim is fake
You are the snake
To blame for all your crime
But we see through your lies
We won′t back down we won't back down
Yeah we′ll find common ground

Yo law enforcement is fucked
The whole system is corrupted
It's not weeding out the bad ones
Or cutting police budgets
It's not taking away handguns
And then thinking that we′ve done it
It′s disrupt the current government
Destroy what they've sculpted
I ain′t talking 'bout adjustments
Or even underfunding it
I′m talking blow the shit to dust
Put people at the front of it
Now it's white men at the top
And BAME are all the way under it
'Cuz rich and white and racist
Governments are who constructed it
I know you never thunk of it
There are racists in this Kingdom
We invaded the whole planet that′s
Why we're named Great Britain
You keep shouting that enslavement got
Abolished but it didn't
Nah slavery still happens
It′s just called the prison system
Now I′m singing

We won't back down we won′t back down
You cannot stop us now our voice is too loud
The peace you claim is fake
You are the snake
To blame for all your crime
But we see through your lies
We won't back down we won′t back down
Yeah we'll find common ground

If a white man started shouting
Screaming fuck the police
It′d be leave them be
We got more troubles in these streets
But, if a black man did the same shit
Fuck you best believe
It'd be hands up, get down
On your fucking knees
Nah hold up we ain't done yet
Let′s start talking appropriation
Taking shit races are hated for and
Claim it as your creation
Thought you could take centuries of
Racism and erase it
But, you ain′t thought for one
Second about paying your reparations

I'm from the class of 2020 where
It′s crisis on the daily
Got my own pedestal but my
Thrown is stolen from me
Boogied with the devil but I out-moved
Him on the dance floor
Started every battle, now they want more
Six string slinger but my weapon is my people
Never feeble, stand strong
Never break against the evil yeah
Ay i'm from the Asian America
Covered by the media so they wash
Their hands and bury us

Trying to save our corrupted piece
Gave it my all but it costed me

We won′t back down we won't back down
You cannot stop us now our voice is too loud
The peace you claim is fake
You are the snake
To blame for all your crime
But we see through your lies
We won′t back down we won't back down
Yeah we'll find common ground

And while you sit there
Bopping your head to this
Catching every single word
Listening ′til the end of it
Or even if you only hear
One line, let it please, be this
I hope that this year′s the one
You can finally admit your privilege