Destiny - Brown Girl Blues lyrics

The government is lying And they want to keep us dying And damn, you think, what is even the point of trying? See, we are shot when we are defiant And we are shot when we are compliant They rape our women and degrade our truth Next they try to segregate our gifted youth Put big distractions and tears in eyes Screams in TVs mute our empathetic looks See, we have freedom but we are not free We have freedom but we are not free We have freedom but we are not free We are the melanin We are the gods We are royal They want to shoot us off [x2] Children murdered and tags on feet Poor little boys can't even go out and play in the street You think it's been a long time since Civil Rights? No, still our people have to go out and fight KKK live as police [x4] There are churches burning There are churches burning There are people dying There are people dying There are people hurting There are people hurting They are not surviving They are not surviving I have the brown girl blues [x6] And so do you