Dire Times Lyrics

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The sky is falling

The reaper calling

No time for stalling

Tell me, baby are you all in?

I been hauling out to all of the gatherings

Hope you follow the pattern and

Maybe catch me cus I’m falling off balance

It’s like the silence of the lambs

Our silence is their jam

They’re slaughtering

Us niggas picking cotton again

Few of us plotting the end

Farrakhan arguments

Start to pop up and to trend

Then we drop out of the frenzy

Niggas want a Benzy

Niggas wanna live like white folk

Envy

Please don’t tempt me

Police choke the life outta niggas

And our women start petitions

And get to kicking all the dust off of these politicians

And we hardly listen

Their problems, we call it bitchin

We fall out over small bouts

Draw crowds, bickering

I’m thinking when it’s finally time to return the favor

Our ladies do deserve our labor

So fellas tell um yeah, we in

Dire times

But you’re not out of sight nor out of mind

Yeah, we in

Dire times

But you’re not out of sight nor out of mind

Yeah, we in (We in)

Dire times

But you’re not out of sight nor out of mind

Yeah, we in (We in)

Dire times

Dire times

Oh yeah yeah

I might name my kids after all our fallen soldiers

Just so they can get a do-over

To see liberation, we so close to

I’m impatient

Would I take it

If others couldn’t have nathan?

A rat that’s racing

In fact it’s chasing

After the cheese

Pattering feet

The American Dream

What a nightmare

I fear

Niggas don’t like their selves

So much they’ll hate somebody else

Just for loving themselves

And having the courage to love someone else

Who looks like themself

I feel like it’s been prolonged

For so long

Of niggas acting so strong

That they can’t even hold on to nigga

And I don’t just mean men in those sentences

Not just those of us with extra appendages

But when it comes to putting their own bodies on the front lines

The LGBTQ community done it for us EVERY ONE TIME

Let um know, yeah, we in

Dire times

But you’re not out of sight nor out of mind

Yeah, we in

Dire times

But you’re not out of sight nor out of mind

Yeah, we in (We in)

Dire times

But you’re not out of sight nor out of mind

Yeah, we in (We in)

Dire times

Dire times

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None of us are free until we are all free