Squad Car Blues//SCHOOL FUNDING

Blackberry sweet in my soul take me a step
10 toes touching the concrete I was left
To some of my people the pavement a prison
Hard to change the answer if I ain't make the decision
Adolescence filled with view of killing my own kind
Level off a section if ever you cross a code line
Keeping benji for a instant I'll get the ghost right
Don't see who in it til you finished now that's a ghost ride
I walk these streets, patrol for beef and bread to get my weight up
Don't trust police, the lights make times get darker when the day runs
Life won't change if I'm gone so I just got to play my part
To protect mine I'll take yo life man why this fight so hard
Pain me and all my people need to
Change free but we still locked up in them
Chains wonder if our ancestors
Ashamed only thing we've ever known is
Pain me and all my people need to
Change free but we still locked up in them
Chains different tones but cut from the same
Grain only thing we've ever known is pain
Take a trip in my mind
Looking for solutions at the drop of a dime
I know this shit can't last forever
Tryna fix it and be quick with the time
Step on the streets and don't know my surroundings and still I be walking with head turns
Should I continue or will I be left there to feed up the blue and the red birds
Adolescence cluttered with backhanded compliments
Knowing the cards I was handed battled with my confidence
Niggas want me to act like a nigga, I'm the opposite
Trying to figure out ways to balance out the conflict
Set on greatness and they trippin off type a car you in
Finish on impulse really no type of bargaining
Too many kin sent to kennels and can't bark again
Burning my culture what the definition of arson is
I walk these streets in search for peace but sadly I ain't find none
We still need change but we can't seem to find it on the Homefront
My people people came so far hanging high up in the sun
Ain't shit changed we just dying by the gavel or the gun
Pain me and all my people need to
Change free but we still locked up in them
Chains wonder if our ancestors
Ashamed only thing we've ever known is
Pain me and all my people need to
Change free but we still locked up in them
Chains different tones but cut from the same
Grain only thing we've ever known is pain
One in the same, birds of a feather
We are united, and intertwined
Bounded by lineage
We are one
Tell me
How we supposed to pass and you ain't got more answers than me
Only one that's got the answers been the one to fail me
I get my paper, pen or pencil and prepare for my speech
Too long
We don't know what class we supposed to go to get our school on
Meanwhile teachers lounge reek like caviar and poupon
Send us off to recess then detention if we fool off
I don't want grades to go wasted we know too much
I don't like art class the art made with tainted brush
Home room don't feel like home, don't know what we aren't showed
Give us these cheat sheets with your name on the handbook no
Anger led to my growth but a nigga still gonna be a nigga to the po
Least I can do for the people whenever I get the knowledge is to share the info
But remember that all of your skin folk ain't kinfolk and some of em lost ain't no bringing em back
Can't help the hopeless, man they'll help the start off the riot and tell the police where you at
I can't walk down the street I see what they did to Ahmad
Praying my niggas that walk this with me make it til they old and retired
Pain every time that I turn on Tv and see that another one died
They used to hunt us like thieves, now they get a leave for the crime
Tightrope walking, please don't get caught
These are shallow waters hard hits if you fall
These are shallow waters hard hits if you fall
Tightrope walking, please don't get caught