Will There Ever Be Peace Lyrics

My mom always used to fight for me

She tried to be

Both parents, but my family tree makes me wanna cry and weep

Grandpa probably used to fight blitzkrieg

I don't wanna see my ancestry

Bonhoeffer was an idol to me

Malcolm and Martin inspired me

Hope the past can give us sight to see

The world needs to change entirely

It was built on racism

School taught me about colonies barely mentioning slaves in it

Rap educated me more than the history courses

All they ever taught was French revolution from different sources

We need to correct

Errors that are deeply attached

To Western culture - original art displayed Jesus as black

Then they made everyone look white cause whites were feeling mismatched

Some even use the bible to defend slavery

God didn't end slavery

It took hundreds of years and countless deaths

And in 2020 some cops still wanna stop the breath

Of the brown and black

Pac said there will never be peace

Are we destined to grieve over loved ones left dead in the streets

It takes a second to see

We ain't doing well and we never may be

Are we destined to grieve

Indefinitely

Will there ever be justice, will there ever be peace?

Will there ever be a day where we all can stand together

Seems like dictators wanna fight over land forever

When Mike Brown's blood was getting shed

The justice department let their own folks run the trial, not cross examining

A cop who fired his gun at least ten times when he killed

An unarmed man with it

That's foul they let him off

Changed the regular procedure of the trial to let the killer walk

Still the cops

Don't get a charge

Police is still killing blacks

They seem to feel a thrill in that, get a gat, shoot and ask questions later

Step by step we fail and

Move steady to the lowest point like an escalator

MLK the third said not to only look at the ones who rage in darkness

But look at the ones who create the darkness

Back when

I worked at a hostel I was a coward, only half man

The cook outright said hey

So, what if Mike Brown was shot, he was a black man

I stared at him shocked at what he said then

But too scared to report him, fearing for my own job

That still puts me to shame I had to grow balls

Pac said there will never be peace

Are we destined to grieve over loved ones left dead in the streets

It takes a second to see

We ain't doing well and we never may be

Are we destined to grieve

Indefinitely

Will there ever be justice, will there ever be peace?

Will there ever be a day where we all can stand together

Seems like dictators wanna fight over land forever

I can't shut up anymore when someone crosses the nazi line

That's good trouble, I'll be fine

Some wanna dispute racism, that's some delirious shit

Whites have been privileged to never directly experience it

We need to let people eat in our country

People flee from war and try to reach our country

Then we make them feel like we better them cause we're rich in our country

We let the army shoot people at the European coast and feel pride

For claiming the Nobel Peace Prize

Bombs drop nonstop in foreign countries

While most of us sit at home watching

Power back to the people!

We need to educate ourselves so we don't act just as evil

People get punished and killed unjustly

At least watch when things get ugly

Fuck this war

Just move all the fucking troops back to Russian soil

It's lock and load if the goddamn war

Don't stop at our fuckin door

Putin lost his mind

Over greed, racism and hate

People need to take over his place

Pac said there will never be peace

Are we destined to grieve over loved ones left dead in the streets

It takes a second to see

We ain't doing well and we never may be

Are we destined to grieve

Indefinitely

Will there ever be justice, will there ever be peace?

Will there ever be a day where we all can stand together

Seems like dictators wanna fight over land forever