เพลง We Could Be Free (Explicit)

We Could Be Free (我们可以自由) - Vic Mensa/Ty Dolla $ign

Written by：Victor Mensah/Larrance Dopson/Malik Yusef Jones/Glenda Proby/Tyrone Griffin Jr

We could be free

If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other

One day I believe I'd learn

To see my enemy as my brother

Then we could be free truly

And love could wash away our sorrows

I'm not afraid to bleed

If it means we'll make them better today not tomorrow

One day I dream of telling my momma

You ain't gotta work no more

Same for my father born in Ghana down on that dirt road floor

As far as he came I can't complain but pain is so subjective

Spend so much time countin' issues I forget to count

My blessings

Watch my cousins back at home getting water out a well

While I watch my brother stacking stone whippin' water by the scale

Tryna' get a mill' on the other side

They ain't got a meal we don't recognize we in heaven

So we think we live in hell

It's been getting kinda hard to tell

But

Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky

Asking why I'm alive when the realest niggas died

And my pride won't let me give up lord as hard as I try

In those times I try to remember

That we could be free

If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other

One day I believe I'd learn

To see my enemy as my brother

Then we could be free truly

And love could wash away our sorrows

I'm not afraid to bleed

If it means we'll make them better today not tomorrow

We make a better today not tomorrow

I don't want to wait for the afterlife

I don't want a vigil by candle light

I don't want to be the new sacrifice

I don't want to turn into a poltergeist

Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams

Momma cryin' at an open casket

Cold as ice in a suit 3 piece

All dressed up for Sunday masses

Pastor said put faith in god

But faith alone can't make things right

Who the f**k is you to patronize

Somebody's son whose daddy died

Why they flood baton rouge

Why the city singing Alton's blues

Why why why why

I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news

What the f**k I got to lose

So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve

You fools saying all lives matter

But it's black lives you refuse include

Blocked from the polls

Locked in the hood trying to stop you from voting and stop you from growing

And cops keep blowing and blowing

Keep black people locked into cotton

They don't want you to own but

Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky

Asking why I survived all the days that I could have died

Who am I in my place

To contemplate suicide

In those times I try to remember

That we could be free truly

If we'd only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other

But I believe I'd learn

To see my enemy as my brother

Then we could be free truly

And we could wash away our sorrows

I'm not afraid to bleed if it means

We'll make them better today not tomorrow

Somebody

Make my enemy my brother

Woah oh oh oh

Make better today not tomorrow

Make my enemy my brother