Daniel Johnson - Freedom Fighter

Freedom fighter not just a freedom writer
Maybe we're freeing up space by using the lighter
Burning down buildings to free their eyes up
Buildings come down as souls get higher and higher
Because we realise the eyes are the windows to our souls
Maybe the buildings can't take no more
Maybe be they're sick of being a witness to
Injustice but their mouths are tied shut with money
Honey and milk
Nnm mm
More like blood and gravel if we land face first
And if we don't then our beds are made on the earth
As sheets are laid over us
I can't breathe
Officer I'm scared
I didn't do anything
I'm innocent
In school we learnt our human rights
I guess blue uniforms got to skip that class
Class they show none to the black working class middle class and upper class it's crazy
Racists got black people catching our breath cos we're from different races
And it won't run no more
You've been busting guns and told us to silence
But we said no sir no more
Learn how to speak up my inner Kunta not just making noise in the speaker
covered in melodies
I want these to hit raw to your ears
Cos we need therapy
You ripped our hearts from our chest and stomped on it,
You took what's ours then put us on ships
What more do you want you bitter racists
I hope you choke on your own bitter hatred
I hate this
But I don't hate you
I just hate the view from these flipping windows
Black assault as quick as the wind blows
Windrush shhh
We didn't forget that hush
I'll get back to that
Got to prioritise this by loss of blood
Ahh
George Floyd
Nia Wilson
Belly mujinga
Breonna Taylor
Ahmaud Arbery
The Lord must really love black people
Probably why satan's trying to take us all
But we aren't afraid of dying anymore
Woke
Black people's blood are touching the ground and is causing a whirlwind
They thought the beauty was in our stones and minerals but its really in our skin
Now I know why it was only when the dumb officer put his knee on the neck we took a stand like Kaepernick
They take our stones but fill our mouths with their cheap gravel as we scream face first on the ground we can't breathe
Do we have to die to escape from more torture for us to really rest in peace
Please
Stop killing us
How about if we ask nicely
Pretty please
Black lives will always matter

Rest in peace to everyone who has died from the hands of racism
Shukri Abdi you're not forgotten
And to everyone else who has been a victim and is still here to fight on
I hope you you fight strong
Always know that black lives will always matter

Written by:
Daniel Johnson

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