I Am A Man Lyrics

Yo

Alright

My Facebook is filled with two men taking knees

Two men I never met are on their knees just for me

One man takes a knee to defend my beliefs

The other's knee is on my throat just in hopes I don't breathe

What does it mean?

Two men defending opposite sides

When I'm forced into the middle so my life's on the line

Man one has had enough he has to choose do or die

The other man just wants me gone, you can see in his eyes

Now, who am I? You might ask

What's so special 'bout you?

Another person might just ask

Ace, what did you do?

And I've been thinking that through

Cuz man, I wish that I knew

Cuz then I could solve the problem, but I don't have a clue

I swear I'm telling the truth

This shit is out of the blue

The saddest part about it is this ain't nothing new

So I'll probably be shot dead for false conclusions you drew

Yes, you! Cuz if I'm guilty then you gotta be too

See, that's the rule

So what judgments have you made about me?

Cuz I bet you'd never guess my IQ's 143

That ain't so easy to see

That's why you call the police

Who shoot first ask later

Yeah, we know how y'all be

You all think you elite

leaving my blood on the leaves

You just want me losing trust in every person I meet

That's why it's hard to believe

That we can change it in peace

Cuz when we march you call us thugs who wanna riot the streets

So the only option I see

Is to pack me a heat

But then I give you every cause to kill me causally

Yo, what's your problem with me?

Like, really, what do you see?

What's so different 'bout my life and the air that I breathe?

Cuz when I look into the mirror, all I see is myself

Honestly playing the game with the hand I was dealt

And from what I can tell

That's been doing me well

Cuz I can see where I go wrong, so maybe look at yourself

And yo, what if it helps to really look in your eyes

And work to fix every aspect of yourself you despise?

Stop outsourcing the pain instead of looking inside

To ask yourself why you're careless when a black man dies

Naw

Naw, wait, wait, wait

I just qualified the one thing that lets us relate

See, dead man dead black man doesn't equate

Cuz dead black man's skin is a nigger's mistake

And you can tell by the response from the head of state

Black people pure evil in a nation of great whites

We all guilty in the world of sin

But man two thinks he's a judge

And you can tell by the grin

I thought Christ said life's about the goodness within

But apparently, for you it's bout the tone of my skin

So how the hell do I win if I was born this way?

What's the point of free will if I don't have a say?

Why the blatant lie to say straight and narrow's the way?

If the prize of life is death, then, we won't play

Naw

See, that's exactly what they want you to think

Flood your mind with hate and nihilism drink it or sink

They know that we on the brink

To change the world in a blink

And when we get the upper hand

They're scared we'll make 'em extinct

So let's think about a remedy as best as we can

If you're offended by extremities, you cut off the hand

Any part of you unheavenly won't fit in the plan

So if ya hand in supremacy, you're probably damned

Fall prey to group identity, you bloody the land

But if you look into the mirror you might see who I am

I'm not a monster or an enemy

And if you don't understand

Allow me to jog your memory

I am a man