E-Coli - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Awar]

Now is it a contradiction to say I want peace

When I shout "War!" in damn near every song?

Look, or should I pound my biscuit and pop Pete?

Cuz the times we livin' in require heavy arms

Protect my fam or get shot like dogs in the street

Cryin' from the tear gas they set on your lawn

My people get stopped and frisked like talk is cheap

Steadily dropped by police using deadly harm

And politicians that treatin' people like savages

****** ***** rappers leanin' 'em activists

Contaminated water leaking from the taps and ****

Still dripping while the rationale is to ration it

Acid rain on my face, I'm living an acid trip

Pullin' accurate, bullets hit abdomens

No wool over their eyes, it's a civil entrapment

Dreams shatter in the same place the fragments hit

Reborn like Lazarus, them boys given half a f*** about harassing us

And poison in the aqueducts

Now I'm looking at the glass, it's half a cup

Crabs in the bucket, pointing automatics at us

No flags fly half-mast for bodies on the pavement

In our backyard and they don't got a statement

Revolution won't be televised 'til we go live

It's like something's in the water-- e. coli

I'm standing outside watching my city burn

Cuz we fight fire with fire, when will we ever learn?

My brother's stretched out on the pavement lifeless

For hours he's just laying there-- lifeless

I want revenge when the situation's like this

I wish that I saw that this was coming--psychic

Another disaster added to the chapter of our community

This creates more division for us--you and me

Mr. President, where you at? How come you ain't sayin' nothing?

This your people, we your people, ayo we out here suffering

I'm afraid for my neighborhood, it's like God is absent

A lot has happened, again they shot a black man

Justified the one arm, so it's hard to keep calm

With hearts broken and torn, I hope the sun shines through the storm

We thirst for justice and equality, but it's bone dry

Cuz something's in the water-- e. coli

I'm tryna see just where you are

I close my eyes and there you are

Sometimes I only see what I wanna see

I don't wanna look down if you're not there