[Verse 1: Cidi]

Now can you tell me, do you hear the sirens?

The blue and red flashing

And a light that’s kind of blinding

Officer stepping slow, registration & license

Life is flashing before him in single moments of silence

Victim within a system of infiltrators and tyrant

While he’s compliant, blue perpetrators are violent

He thinking about a future of shining bright like a diamond

All taken away in a moment that seems so timeless

One had his hands up, the other couldn’t breath

Another was helping a troubled child in the streets

I wanna know how they feel while they watching him bleed

And if they really give a damn about destroying his dreams

Can you give me a reason?

To ya’ll there always is

For killing a civilian

A man that had a kid

Sure this is not my story, but the story of many

Similar to me with me melanin all in plenty

[Malcom X]

We must be prepared to defend ourselves, or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent, racist mob

[Verse 2: Cidi]

As I sit here under the shade of a tree

I think about the nation and all we could be

We’ve got oil for days, that’s money for weeks

But corrupt government would never use it for the streets

Instead they sit on it and put in in a suitcase

It seems what they’re doings only tailored so it suits them

Only care about wealth, they don’t care about the children

Cos if they really did we wouldn’t be at such a loose end

But I see you

In your range rover

With mansions everywhere like a rich young Hova

Your children in the best schools in countries all over

I guess they got lucky, no four leaf clover

While you sit and feed on all you can eat

A child is malnourished a result of your greed

Do you not see the pain in their eyes as they weep

Seems across every border, the darkest ones ain’t free

It’s all parallel like train tracks at your feet

It’s not rocket science or no complex feat

And I shouldn’t have to say this in 2016

It’s not target practise when you see him in the streets

Man I promised myself I wouldn’t get all political

But dead bodies in the street? Nah this shit is critical

Pitiful for you if you thinking that you’re invincible

It don’t make you any cooler man silence is hypocritical

[Outro]

Diamond Reynolds: Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back and he’s covered … they killed my boyfriend. He’s licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet out his pocket and he let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm

Officer: Ma’am, keep your hands where they are

Reynolds: I am sir, no worries

Officer: [Yells expletive.]

Reynolds: He just got his arm shot off. Oh my God, please don’t tell me he’s dead. Please don’t tell me my boyfriend just went like that