#FightBack - Intellectual

Intro

Heroes or villains

Call us whatever you want

We’ve got to fight back

(Yea) No longer victims of the system. Ready to rise against them. There’s no task greater

They blast at us first, and questions they don’t ask later

Flames from the molotovs represent our past anger

Feels like a Holocaust ever since they gassed Chambers

And papers asking what’s the reason for the backlash

Maybe ‘cause they turned our backyards into Baghdad

No more fake smile. My camouflage is a gas mask

And I ain’t trying to be just another name behind a hashtag

Back with a brand new mentality since my dad passed

Here on out my flag stands forever at half-staff

All this racial tension, but who gets the last laugh

When they cover us in white sheets and zip us up in black bags

Better recognize politicians telling hella lies

Never surprised. You can see it through Helen Keller’s eyes

Police extra weaponized, but the soul of a rebel never dies

The revolution won’t be televised

Chorus

Mike Brown means: We’ve got to fight back

Yea! Fight back: Fight back

Fight back: Fight back

You can tell by the red in our eyes we’re ready to ride

‘Cause we’re tired of being hunted, wanted dead or alive

We can’t forget the way our ancestors met their demise

Trying to fight for the respect they’ve been forever denied

Too many sheep following wolves in a shepherd’s disguise

If they ever severed the ties they would never survive

‘Cause there’s so much you don’t see. Went 4 months with no sleep

Got no trust for police. It’s no justice, no peace

Born to be prophets, but all they see is profit

Only want to acknowledge us as carcasses and convicts

Feeding us these articles that target our subconscious

And radios only play the artists spitting nonsense

Land of the Free, but no one ever reads the fine print

Baptized in bedlam, crucified in conflict

‘Til one day we held up our fists. Had the cops pissed

Turned the city to a mosh pit and haven’t stopped since

[Repeat Chorus]

I said you can’t stop the revolution: You can’t stop the revolution

You can’t stop the revolution: You can’t stop the revolution

I said you can’t stop the revolution: You can’t stop the revolution

So will I be just another slain in the tyranny

Or maybe eventually we’ll claim this a victory

I’m scribbling, filling in the pages of history

Making sure his name doesn’t fade from our memory

Silly me, wasting my energy on faceless identities

Enemies invading my Twitter feed

But really they’re just craving some fame and publicity

Maliciously, making up outrageous conspiracies

Like I’ve got ties to Illuminati or Anonymous

The FBI sponsored this, Ground Zero did not exist

And I was just some sort of instrument of apocalypse

Or plotting world dominance. All that’s preposterous

For every injustice, expect a global response

‘Cause there’s a lot of us. Solidarity across the continents

They set us up to be the opposite of prosperous

So what’s a broken window to 100 broken promises?