Dead Prez - Scar Strangled Banner lyrics

Where there’s health neglect There’s no self-respect But what else you expect? Look how they dealt the deck We inherited stress Had to bury our best Martin, Malcolm X Bullet holes in they chest We adapt to the struggle Only way we survive Eating scraps from the table But it kept us alive Making something from nothing Still we hope for the best Making miracles happen, daily coping with less Scar strangled banner Scar strangled banner Scar strangled banner Raised in the ghetto Singing songs – called survival But eating soul food to Have you dead on arrival Hand on the rifle Other hand on the bible Strong as an ox But look at what you put inside you We resillient beings Do the silliest things Know better than you better Cause that’s what experience brings Break out of jail But can you break out a sickle cell? We say we livin well But we living in hell We already been to the other side We ain’t turning back, now we choose a lie To many goodbyes, and that ain’t right We feel it inside, it’s time to fight We already been to the other side We ain’t turning back, now we choose a lie To many goodbyes, and that ain’t right We feel it inside, it’s time to fight We glues to the TV screen commercials in-between Crack Donalds, Murda King What happened to eat your greens? Eatin some or anything, abusing Mary Jane Chinese chicken wings, everyday hood thing 5 hour energy, red bull and Hennessey Head bobbin but the organs full of toxicity Pack a cool menthol, nicotine pit fall They have the nerve to Put cool on the pack so they can trick y’all Slave to the Dutch master Colon cancer victim Tell you on the package But we still blame the system No squares in my circle Screw all that sippin purple I’m tryina live to my potential Age is just a number A G preserve his temple A G control his temper No discipline, you slippin No toxins in my kitchen Slavery is over cousin But then at lunch it wasn’t If food is the last plantation Then I’m Harriet Tubman Advocating colonics Saving my lungs from chronic But you can’t free a slave Unless he knows he’s in bondage (You wanna get freaky? Let’s go) You can’t free a slave Unless he knows he’s in bondage