[Verse 1: Briggs & Miiesha]
Let's get straight to the source (Yeah), let us take its course (Uh-huh)
One young man tell another young man that he gonna break his jaw (Okay)
One young man's Black, the other's a jack, need to settle that score (Right)
How you gonna use your force, huh? Slam those kids on the floor?
Tellin' us we ain't got one thing to worry if we ain't breakin' the law (Oh, really?)
But you was havin' a bad day as soon as we stepped through the door
We can't take our kids to a fuckin' store if they're fuckin' four with your fuckin' claws
Get your hands off 'em, they'rе not yours, no, I don't wanna fuckin' talk
What's that statue say about you when you don't teach thе truth, huh?
Chokeholds and armbars the only time you reach the youth (For real)
If it ain't the boys in blue (Yeah), it's another one in a suit
They like us on a building, not in the building, unless we build for you (But nobody gonna claim me)
[Chorus: Miiesha]
There is blood in these cells and these cells in the blood
The system keeps taking oxygen out the lungs
With no space in our heart to be filled up with love
One will give everything until they've given up
There is blood in these cells and these cells in the blood
The system keeps taking oxygen out the lungs
With no space in our heart to be filled up with love
One will give everything until they've given up
[Verse 2: Miiesha]
Freedom, don't just mean you're given keys
And told that you've got the right to leave
But when them with privilege to lead
Know where you are by knowing where you been
But still I'm gon' believe what you don't see
In that there be space to keep my dreaming
I know it's a long road to get free
Won't be crawling on my knees
I been tryna find the right side of history you flipped
But here in my mind it don't fit
Been tryna make some sense of this life, but the stories conflict
Now that it's me tried, the convict (But nobody gonna claim me)
[Chorus: Miiesha]
There is blood in these cells and these cells in the blood
The system keeps taking oxygen out the lungs
With no space in our heart to be filled up with love
One will give everything until they've given up
There is blood in these cells and these cells in the blood
The system keeps taking oxygen out the lungs
With no space in our heart to be filled up with love
One will give everything until they've given up
Miiesha released Blood Cells (Remix) on Fri Aug 28 2020.