Birds and Riots

[Intro: Sample]
Do you understand that? That's what we came to do
We came to do the agricultural work in the South
And the textile work in the North
Now, if I right now, if I right now decided
That I wanted to play Monopoly with you
And for four hundred rounds of playing Monopoly
I didn't allow you to have any money
I didn't...

[Verse 1: Elton Aura]
Lately they been fogging up my lenses
Wipe my eyes and clear my inner visions
I'ma stand my ground [?] own two
Bootstraps [?] with my new boots
I can't pull myself up
My grandmama had to piggyback my daddy
'Til he searched high and low to find self-love
Now I'm standing on his shoulder 'cause I'm next up
Room for error getting nearer, I can't mess up
Would be dead by the feds or arrested
Watch until I get ahead, I put my best foot
Front lines, great grand' fought the same war
Fake freedom, you forgot what's all the pain for

[Chorus]
Choppa, they had to call in the choppas
'Cause you know they can't
Stop us, they steady tryna rob us
No freedom, no pledge or allegiance
System, gotta break down the system
They don't know how to listen
So let it burn

[Verse 2: Made.Allayne]
They stealin' the wave
Now I'm feeling a way, how they still in a wait
My homies, my brothers, fathers, my sister can stay
And they leave my mother to pray
That it be different today
My babysitter ingrained the way the system is paved
The way from prison to graves
And how they keep me enslaved
They can't condition my brain
I never listen to their version of history
Somehow it never mentioned me
They only caught my misery
They tryna block my vision see
Student, the program couldn't get to me
And picture dream the momma
That one day she'd get to see
Her son enrolled in college
Working hard, pursuin' his degree
That's when I knew, just like the prison it's an industry
Just ask the kids, it's fuck school, that's the energy
I've been receiving all these lies from the enemy
'hind enemy lines, but they've been sending me off
Shit got me feeling exhausted, I'm off it

[Chorus]
Choppa, they had to call in the choppas
'Cause you know they can't
Stop us, they steady tryna rob us
No freedom, no pledge or allegiance
System, gotta break down the system
They don't know how to listen
So let it burn

[Outro: Sample]
You broke the contract when you killed us in the streets
And didn't give a fuck!
You broke the contract when for four hundred years
We played your game and built your wealth
You broke the contract when we built our wealth again
On our own, by our bootstraps in Tulsa
And you dropped bombs on us
When we built it in Rosewood and you slaughtered us
You broke the contract, so fuck your Target! Fuck your hall of fame!
As far as I'm concerned, they can burn this bitch to the ground
And it still wouldn't be enough
And they are lucky that what black people are looking for
Is equality, and not revenge