Letter to a Black Soldier Lyrics

Letter to a Black Soldier

Some of y'all be sleeping when you wide awake

Got your head to the sky trying to live your life with faith

When y'all determined your fate the day you signed your soul to the state

They must have caught you American dreaming

Back turned, pants down, America be scheming

Fucking you with a red, white, and blue dick and you swallowing the semen

I can't believe y'all still believing

Hand over your heart, saluting the flag, pledging allegiance

Not me, I'm pledging resistance to the flag of United Snakes of stolen land

And I'll strap up and go to war with the Ku Klux Klan before you ever see me step foot in Afghanistan

Talking about some bullshit, Operation Iraqi Freedom

Got our Black men in uniform over there and right here's where we need them

Need some soldiers for our culture so we can go to war with these vultures

The war is on our people, just look to our communities

Third world conditions in the land of opportunity

No equal access to healthcare, our families on welfare

Don't look to the government, motherfuckers do not care

Just a black pawn in a white man's chess game, political campaign

This shit is so insane, they power you maintain

I tell the military slave to break from his damn chains

Why you risking your life for their capital gains

Dang, it's like you putting yourself on a noose and letting yourself hang

Why you suicidal? Fight for our survival

Put down that Bible, pick up something more reliable

You wanna be a soldier? Then just join the movement

The war is on our people and all the numbers prove it

Institutionalized racism, yeah, it's deeply rooted

That's why I'll burn the American flag before I ever salute it

I plead to y'all, don't uphold the military industrial complex

Don't further American imperialism or their conquest

Like my boy Nando said, who we gonna bomb next

If the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress is Congress

And you expect me to trust these motherfuckers running for office? Nonsense

You say you're fighting for my freedom, we don't even get due process

Stop this, you ain't fighting for my freedom, you fighting to uphold white supremacy

I tell you right now, you don't have to go overseas to fight the enemy

But y'all ain't hearing me, the way I'm talking got some of y'all fearing me

This a black man's view of America and I don't like the scenery

Too many of my brothers locked up in the penitentiary

Modern day slavery in the 21st century

So please analyze why it is that you in the military

Join the army for the people, revolutionary

So sit, think, and just try to reflect

Until next time, I'm signing out

Please, sincerely yours, use your intellect