lirik lagu BVNK – Prayers for the Blacks
Yeah, yeah
Prayers up, prayers up for everyone that we’ve lost
From Emmett Till to George Floyd
Can’t nobody fill the void
Heard the stories as a boy still I’m scared as a man
When they pull me over, I’m supposed to fear
Cause I’m the little man
Wake me up when this shit is over
Fuck the cops who gone really prey
On the ones that they’re meant to protect
Equality and justice is all we dеmand
All those words that I write will make it right
Whitе privilege, they don’t really get it
All these messages we send
Yeah and I’m in therapy for white-afflicted pain
Sue me I’m rooting for everybody that’s black, brown
All that crap, nigga, yeah
[Hook]
Cause freedom, freedom is all we want, yeah
I pray for all the blessings
Protections, show how to be a black person
In this world I believe in
I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
That’s why I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
[Verse 2]
What you wanna be when you grow up
“I wanna be alive” - that’s what these kids say
Imagine what’s in these kid’s heads
I’mma shank man, yeah
We gotta fight for our rights, fight for our lives
Why my mama gotta prep me before I go out
Papa said “if they stop you, you should raise your hands up”
Yeah, shit is fucked up, why it gotta be a certain way
Get judged when I do things a certain way
Ain’t no justice when the system broken, yeah
And can’t nobody come and tell me nothing, yeah
We just need a fix [?] problem
[Hook]
I pray for all the blessings
Protections, show how to be a black person
In this world I believe in
I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
That’s why I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
[Outro]
I be fighting for the things that [?]
And now is the time
All we need is freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom
Prayers up, prayers up for everyone that we’ve lost
From Emmett Till to George Floyd
Can’t nobody fill the void
Heard the stories as a boy still I’m scared as a man
When they pull me over, I’m supposed to fear
Cause I’m the little man
Wake me up when this shit is over
Fuck the cops who gone really prey
On the ones that they’re meant to protect
Equality and justice is all we dеmand
All those words that I write will make it right
Whitе privilege, they don’t really get it
All these messages we send
Yeah and I’m in therapy for white-afflicted pain
Sue me I’m rooting for everybody that’s black, brown
All that crap, nigga, yeah
[Hook]
Cause freedom, freedom is all we want, yeah
I pray for all the blessings
Protections, show how to be a black person
In this world I believe in
I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
That’s why I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
[Verse 2]
What you wanna be when you grow up
“I wanna be alive” - that’s what these kids say
Imagine what’s in these kid’s heads
I’mma shank man, yeah
We gotta fight for our rights, fight for our lives
Why my mama gotta prep me before I go out
Papa said “if they stop you, you should raise your hands up”
Yeah, shit is fucked up, why it gotta be a certain way
Get judged when I do things a certain way
Ain’t no justice when the system broken, yeah
And can’t nobody come and tell me nothing, yeah
We just need a fix [?] problem
[Hook]
I pray for all the blessings
Protections, show how to be a black person
In this world I believe in
I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
That’s why I pray, I pray
The pain, the pain
Will go away, away
[Outro]
I be fighting for the things that [?]
And now is the time
All we need is freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom