Rage Lyrics

Do not speak to me

About what the dead could have done

To not be dead

Do not speak of drugs

Quick feet

Fear and fleeing

Do not share

Suspensions and suspected

Toxicology

Do not call

Boy man

Man demon

Do not speak of

Superhuman strength

Black magic

Where guns magically manifest

Then disappear in body cams

Do not reference

Anything but the blood

That flows in all of our veins

Congealing on concrete

Do not tell me that badges

Are not the blame

That mistakes are not manslaughter

That a hit and run

And the pulled trigger of a gun

Aren't worthy of the same consequence

Do not tell me

That being an officer is hard

When you have not hugged the rigor mortis

On your husband

Do not tell me they were scared

When a child doesn't want to be tucked in

Because they saw

Their brother under a white sheet

Or when they miss their

Bullet ridden closed casket sister

Do not tell me what could've been

What should have been

When it's always been

Eff a Blue flag

Do not tell me about bad apples

When the tree was planted

To do exactly what it does

When the tree only grows

From my people's misery

And promotions come from arrest data

And not servitude

Would rather sign settlement checks

Than pink slips

Terminations

That could protect whoever

They would have targeted next

Do not speak to me about forgiveness

When your apology comes to me

Empty of justice

You do not get to say anything about

Healing

Unity

Hope

Thinking you can

Hashtag

Prayer hands

Sad emoji the racism away

Do not set your mouth to say that

You can't believe this is happening

When our society has always

Made lynching go by another name

Be silent if you cannot improve upon it

Bite your tongue

Till you taste

The copper in your mouth

Or the saline flowing to your lips

For I believe

There is a special place in hell

For those who

Are angered by our grief

And can't comprehend

Our rage