[Chorus:]

A new day could of been dawning - but we’re left with the…

Taken down by the world they were born in, leaving us to...

The grid got us underperforming, leading people to their...

Courage comes from within like endorphins, lets overcome the

[Verse 1: Akrobatik]

No mother should have to bury her child

But its still young brothers lying in the cemetery for miles

In lockup its few attempts at rehabilitation

In the hood its no attempts at reconciliation

Brothers coming out don’t wanna deal with no humiliation

Its power in numbers so it's gang affiliation

But is that inherently in our souls

Or would maybe things be different if our neighborhoods were lit and patrolled

Would we still be seen as savages if we could have the lavishness

Commit crimes more than what the national average is?

We civilized but we minimalized

And unfortunately many turn to criminal lives

Its no surprise blinded eyes can’t vigil the prize

With politicians bullshittin' in their civil disguise

When we put this all together men and women will rise

We mourn as another broken individual dies

[Chorus]

A new day coulda been dawning - but we’re left with the…

Taken down by the world they were born in, leaving us to...

The grid got us underperforming, leading people to their...

Courage comes from within like endorphins, lets overcome the

[Verse 2: Mr. Lif]

Yo, this world could have been anything that we wanna

We've got so much to offer, yet we settled on slaughter

Are these the things that we've done with our posable thumb

Plus our fascinating brains, painting pathways to pain

Explain how do we go from children who were brimming with vast imagination

Filled with fascination

To fueling this land of fabrication?

You can check it on your local station, fuck it, It's on every station

Corporations crush your local farmer

The government's in bed with big Pharma

The cops who shot ya rocking big armor

They like to wear it to corral a protest

The democracy where they don't think the people know best?

From electoral college to falsified knowledge

Somebody told me slavery has been abolished

Tax laws, the backdrop for feet they've hacked off

Showed the police, signs for peace, they never backed off

[Chorus]

A new day coulda been dawning - but we’re left with the…

Taken down by the world they were born in, leaving us to...

The grid got us underperforming, leading people to their...

Courage comes from within like endorphins, lets overcome the