In This Together Lyrics

From Ethiopia to Zambia, real people

Just to be real ya'll, it's so hard to feel people

Without feeling they hurt too

I don't mean to unnerve you

But to unearth truth hidden

Tribal living ain't evil

Missionary, yeah I see you

Feeling good because you think

You're saving people with your money, bibles and your things

Who live in poverty because you got those things

But our self-sufficiency ain't a part of your mission is it

In places where to eat we gotta say that we are Christian

I don't care what you believe in

But imposing your religion on folks that need medicine

Is poison with the same hand

And it shouldn't even be a part of your doctrine

I got friends and family who grew up in the east

Cradle of civilization, and raised to believe

Blonde hair, bright skin & blue eyes is what beauty means

A white Jesus still hangs on my grandma's mantle piece

Schools in Africa are teaching U.S. history

European-centered so it's not a big mystery

On how my whole family disappeared out to these parts

Everyday the pain weighs heavy on my heart

They say Ethiopia is not colonized, Jah Rastafari praise

What would they say if they had my eyes

May not of come in chains, still enslaved in the mind

We in this together son, your beef is mine

They say Ethiopia is not colonized, Jah Rastafari praise

What would they say if they had my eyes

May not of come in chains, still enslaved in the mind

We in this together son, your beef is mine

From Flatbush to Crown Heights now, real people

Just to be real ya'll, it's still hard to feel people

That rep red, yellow, green, hella harder then me

I never understood all the symbolism you see

No disrespect ya'll, but the emperor you represent

Was an emperor to us, nothing more, nothing less

And he power-tripped just like all of the rest

And he was still in power when our schools were ruled by the west

It wasn't just famine, anguish, and civil unrest

To how I lost my mother's language

Born in America yet, we still citizens to the projects

To some, that's not impoverished, that's accomplished

When anywhere in America must mean that you got shit

But it don't take long to see that you are accosted

If they call you Black, you got the worst prospect

To live it up the best, so we reject ourselves

Like Black folks and Africans don't share the same hell

For us to survive we do each need to help

Crush the divide, find beauty in ourselves

Respect life, and stop killing ourselves

They say Ethiopia is not colonized, Jah Rastafari praise

What would they say if they had my eyes

May not of come in chains, still enslaved in the mind

We in this together son, your beef is mine

They say Ethiopia is not colonized, Jah Rastafari praise

What would they say if they had my eyes

May not of come in chains, still enslaved in the mind

We in this together son, your beef is mine

Now from Rwanda to Compton, real people

Face mass murder everyday

I can't feel people that look the other way

Because it ain't happening to them

They live American, blaming the victim for their genocide

Who mastered divide & conquer so well

Ask any set, or any tribe

From any side, or even nation

Ammunition we are facing

These guns have been placed in our hands by who

Probably the same fools that named us nigger

After cannonballs

Now we are stone cold killers

So who's controlling your mind

It's done by design

Until we were colonized we weren't even identified by race

Now they say that it justifies their hate

Dehumanization really does go a long way

From Willie Lynch papers to East Africa today

And I can be locked away for these things that I say

But I'm not afraid of them not feeling me

I mean, what's the point if they're not seeing me

To stop being me

To reach my real people, worldwide on the front lines

I'm a ride, and never give up the fight to protect life

They say Ethiopia is not colonized, Jah Rastafari praise

What would they say if they had my eyes

May not of come in chains, still enslaved in the mind

We in this together son, your beef is mine

They say Ethiopia is not colonized, Jah Rastafari praise

What would they say if they had my eyes

May not of come in chains, still enslaved in the mind

We in this together son, your beef is mine