What We Want Lyrics

We want them reparations hands raising

We descendants of the folks who built this nation

But our fellow government won't pay

At their best they can say sorry

We want them reparations hands raising

We descendants of the folks who built this nation

But our fellow government won't pay

At their best they can say sorry?

Clapping machetes steadily swinging

Freedom songs were heavily singing

Saint Domingue we claimed independence

We Chasing the Spanish, French, and the British

King Charles the 10th put forth concessions

150mil total collection

To give to the slavers that lost in their gains

But what about us who was brought here in chains?

Sounds like extortion no other way to put it

90mil's all we had borrowed the rest from the French plus pay the interest

122 years of francs paid overseers

Even their next of kin's next of kin get a check to spend

We want them reparations hands raising

We descendants of the folks who built this nation

But our fellow government won't pay

At their best they can say sorry

We want them reparations hands raising

We descendants of the folks who built this nation

But our fellow government won't pay

At their best they can say sorry

Formally a slave by now a certain person

Government paid a stimulus to those that worked us

300 per they can go about their day

They'll give me 100 dollars just to go away

But where tho, I was born here hoe

Got no beef to eat nor no land to even grow

Financial bondage got me at my lowest low

Forever in debt picking this cotton and tobacco

We want them reparations hands raising

We descendants of the folks who built this nation

But our fellow government won't pay

At their best they can say sorry

We want them reparations hands raising

We descendants of the folks who built this nation

But our fellow government won't pay

At their best they can say sorry?