[Verse 1]

Always stopped by the police

Treated like a foreign enemy

Invisible barriers, segregated areas

Deep seeded anger, spoon-fed hatred

Walking time bombs up in my slums

No respect is given so dude is taking some

Four hundred years of we shall overcome

And still not one in that many brothers haven't overcame

Peace, [?] in the streets

Police turning up major heat

Deferred riches [?] with no assistance

Girls become women and women become bitches

Look, man, the young boy fixes

Become independent, wanna [?] the system

At least one hundred and fifty revolves square

Or get squashed by some black snitches

[Chorus]

Trauma, trauma, trauma

Living everyday with trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma

Whatever you say to me (You don't know, you don't know)

Whatever you talking about me (You don't know, you don't know)

Whatever they say in the papers (You don't know, you don't know)

And whatever they say is really true (You don't know, you don't know)

[Verse 2]

America, home of the free

Except that didn't include me

Exceptionalism to describe this system

Truly exceptional that I was resistant

[?] passage, millions transition

Those that arrive wish they had died swimming

To survive, Africans kept the pride within em

Now they wanna ask where is our pride?

Trauma, how can I begin to describe?

What it feels like to be dead and alive

They never tried, we strived and we still strive

Self-sufficiency for us is to [?]

Black Wallstreet, Rosewood, huh

Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson, huh

Cops buy burgers for white mass murderers

No protection for us, no one is serving us

[Chorus]

Trauma, trauma, trauma

Living everyday with trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma

Whatever you say to me (You don't know, you don't know)

Whatever you talking about me (You don't know, you don't know)

Whatever they say in the papers (You don't know, you don't know)

And whatever they say is really true (You don't know, you don't know)

Trauma, trauma, trauma

[?]

[Verse 3]

I was born on the wrong side of justice

Imitate this but you can't judge this

Like [?] if you're famous and make mistakes

When you're black and your people feel the same pain

Setback 'cause of one at the top

Black on black crime, when will it ever stop?

Kinda odd putting the blame on the police

When we're killing more of us than the police

[Outro]

Trauma, trauma, trauma

Living everyday with trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma