The Halluci Nation, Northern Voice, Shad - How I Feel lyrics

Well I could never imagine the
Pain that the mother saw
When life takes a turn for
The worst and creators all
Becomes another canvas that will
Never be completed
I’m a few degrees away and
A thousand times defeated
My energy is depleted
But, I wanna stand and fight
So we can move the spirit instead
Travel back into the light
I feel the fears and depression
Fears and aggression
Woven into society from years of oppression
The violence is normalized
The silence is horrifying
Truth is denied and the fact
Is more are dying
You don’t have to tell me how you feel
Cause, I can hear it in your cries

It’s hard to listen, but listen
Cause it’s much harder living it
Than listening to the hardships
Still the heart's conditioned to
Condition the air
When they air their conditions, keep
Cool But the more tears
Sometimes the clearer the vision
Now what I see, been a long time coming
The Tribe, running, rocking
Reaching new peaks
So them youngins can finally summit
Climbin high above and then flying from it
Up to the skies
Overstanding the corruption and
Deconstructing the lies
I’ve seen this country decline
Trying to keep discussions confined
Hide the underside
Over-extract and try to undermine
Damn, but I still believe in the truth
Whether it’s an MC in a booth
Or a PhD in a suit
Yo when we yelling protest
Tell em the feeling is peaceful we profess
We pro-testify to the will of the people
Tell them what they must know
Turn it up loud when we bust flows
Not in hushed tones, speaking up
Let the trust grow
Now you don’t gotta tell me how you feel
Cause, I can see it in your eyes
You don’t gotta tell me that the pain is real
Cause, I can hear it in your cry

Well, it’s the type of heartbreak that takes
More than tears and time to
Stitch up any wounds and heal
The scars they leave behind
Separation from the fam
Segregation on the land
It was all part of the plan and the blood
Is on your handsIt’s all divide and conquer
Colonize and slaughter Stabbing at the heart
Through the backs of our grandfathers
Now we see our daughters
That are disappearing quickly
Say it’s through the cracks while
Ignoring all the history
Governments be scooping babies way
Before the 60s when you legalize abduction
You legalize the misery
So now you see the mystery
Is really not too complicated
Justice isn’t equally distributed
In my observation money could be made
While the kids are steady isolated
And splitting up a family has
Now become an occupation
And it’s been part of the occupation
Since residential schools enforced starvation
It’s a nation with racism here
Since the start of it
Hard to let go cause it’s carved
In the heart of it
Relation to the land and our rise
Were a part of it roots where I stand
I could never depart from it
And you don’t have to tell me how you feel
Cause, I can see it in your eyes
And they don’t have to prove to
Me that the pain is real
Cause, I can hear it in their cries