Same Old Lyrics

Lemme talk to them

Look, look

Why it seem like everything backwards?

Why all these politicians talk like they're some paid actors?

Why'd they pass a law named after Breonna Taylor

But ain't arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor?

Ok, make it make sense

You can't cuz it don't

Seen this shit too many times I done already lost hope

Ain't no justice in the system, especially when you living broke

It's people still in prison over a couple grams of dope

Strange fruit still swinging except it isn't by a rope around your throat

They put cuffs around your wrist same shit, different approach

Ain't nothing changed but the methods

They say the pen is mightier than the sword so I use it as a weapon

To battle against oppression, I don't see no progression

They just giftwrap the past, serve it to you like a present

Make it look good so you won't hesitate to accept it

Spoon feed you all lies in hopes that you never question

And motherfuck an election, it don't matter who's in office

They gon do what they do regardless, I'm sick of all the talk

I see no changes like I'm Pac, guess a murder ain't a murder if it's a cop that let off shots huh?

When this shit gon stop nigga?

Same old, same old, I pray to God, it don't seem like it's gon change though

When will all this pain go? Trying to keep my faith

But the devil working hard trying to keep us in them chains

Feel like we're running in place, we ain't going nowhere

Oh I seen this shit too many times, we done lost too many lives

They don't listen to our cries, swear to God I'm sick and tired

How they keep telling us lies all the time? Ohhohhhohh

It's like we stuck inside a loop, it's Deja Vu

Turn on the news, ain't nothing new

It's still kids in Yemen struggling for food

While cash flows in from Saudi black gold and it's used

To fund a war that's killing men, women, and youth

Them airstrikes are nameless, left those little kids brainless at school

Left that family to watch their home go up in fumes

Left that child to see his mother being buried six feet under

While he could barely even stomach his hunger shit is cruel, Lord

I pray for peace in the Middle East and across the globe

I pray for peace back home, it's been a war in Darfur ever since I was young

And now i'm grown, and they still wiping out villages, burning down homes

Just makes me wonder, will it ever get better? Shit ion know

Will it come a time where I don't have to write these type of songs?

Will Sam Cookes prophecies come true all along?

Said a change gon come, we still waiting on one so we gonna sing it like

Same old, same old, I pray to God, it don't seem like it's gon change though

When will all this pain go? Trying to keep my faith

But the devil working hard trying to keep us in them chains

Feel like we're running in place, we ain't going nowhere

Oh I seen this shit too many times, we done lost too many lives

They don't listen to our cries, swear to God I'm sick and tired

How they keep telling us lies all the time? Ohhohhhohh