Shot Down ft. Scottie Freestyles Lyrics

A typical Saturday

Shit, felt like no other

Headed to Deep Ellum

To do a show with the fellas

I got my shit together

Packed a leather jacket for the cold weather

Clips for the beretta laying by my umbrella

Shit, I'm down for whatever

Nowadays, snipers got you in scope

Just ask Lee Harvey Oswald in six three

Sixth floor, chilling in The Depository Building

He sat alone, zoned waiting on the moment

Knowing that in three seconds

The fucking world would go hectic

What an incredible sound

The President's down

The crowd distracted by the sounds of three rounds

Some say two, but who's counting

While Lee bouncing out the spot, cause it's hot

Damn, on the get-a-way he had to drop a cop

Man, that's deep

The Dallas Morning News read

"Kennedy Slain on a Dallas Street!"

Elm in fact, Johnson becomes President

In our own backyard

Who would've thought? Damn, who would've thought

Political figures dying at the pull of a trigger

Who would've figured? They would all get shot down

Jealousy inside, made a Muslim die

Why ask why? They would all get shot down

Malcolm X, JFK to Martin Luther King

All had a dream, but it would all get shot down

Another brick in wall, watch it crumble & fall

Who would've thought? They would all get shot down

Dreaming of things that never were

And asking "Why not?"

Blood on the kitchen floor

And a nation screaming "My God!"

This is the cause of fighting

Dying here for the world to see

Shots from a pistol could've missed you

Where would my people be

Maybe it's necessary

Where would we be if Martin didn't get killed

Malcolm survived, JFK had lived

If everyone important wasn't one we lost

Imagine what would've happened

If Jesus hadn't got the cross

Sometimes a martyr's just the start of the change

And the first get it, the worst beaten

Then battered, then slain

And the thang to me

It's like the greater the message

The greater the threat

So if you don't want me dead

I haven't said enough yet

So we keep singing it & singing it & singing it

Until we touch a nerve & then we riding in a chariot

I don't know if Lennon just got killed or was assassinated

But we gone carry on the struggle, cause it's something sacred

Political figures dying at the pull of a trigger

Who would've figured? They would all get shot down

Jealousy inside, made a Muslim die

Why ask why? They would all get shot down

Malcolm X, JFK to Martin Luther King

All had a dream, but it would all get shot down

Another brick in wall, watch it crumble & fall

Who would've thought? They would all get shot down

You can't get back a life, once it's been aborted

You can't rewind to the past & change what was started

Ain't no butterfly effect, but you can record it

Life is full of choices that you make till that date

Is is fate? A predetermined destiny

Is it bigger than what were supposed to see

Or is it to be

Why they take Makaveli & Biggie away from me

RIP, at least I got they CD

See your a nobody after somebody kills you

Your just a body at the funeral

With lives left so miserable

The physical so fragile, please learn

That just like the leaves turn, lives must burn

And you can keep a urn for the pain

But all that remains are memories

See in death there is no remedy

Ask John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, M. L. King

So many slain by the trigger mane

God take away the pain

Political figures dying at the pull of a trigger

Who would've figured? They would all get shot down

Jealousy inside, made a Muslim die

Why ask why? They would all get shot down

Malcolm X, JFK to Martin Luther King

All had a dream, but it would all get shot down

Another brick in wall, watch it crumble & fall

Who would've thought? They would all get shot down