Black on black on black on black
Wood tar pitched and shackled back
Back to back to back to back
Paid in full no matter man fact
priceless pain packed pickings to rack
crack the back of blacks to stack
paper to pay to paper for play and man
Who's black backs crack and snap
Crack sha clack to crack to Sha clack
Know sun know heat know work
Know sleep know Moon at night No heat Get beat go reap another man's grain and wheat
And corn and cotton, their hemp and spitleaf
Our pain our slain our toil their gain
a country a town and cities and Constitutional refrain
All men are equal less black or brown frame
So black on boats float back to back
from Africa Jamaica America human traffica
And Crack Sha clack to crack the back
So stack em and sack em and diminish our brain
Feel worthless feel bitter feel soiled distain
For years and decades and centuries no claim
Just hatred and service and humility and shame
Even our children were destined for flames
They wonder they ponder they infight
Could this be the moment they realize humane
To labor was fine for individual gain
But not on the backs of these black and brown folks
They people, they feeble, they fight for our hopes
Let's take arms let's share arms let's bare arms and vote
For blood shed the tender for which man loves most
Men falling slaves falling many calling this civil but I won't
Till constructs of unjust are rebuffed and wrote
Till black men hold power in seats of highcoat
Well we held then we swelled them till whiteego did bloat
We built it and they killed it and burnt it on high horse
The birth of our freedom was strangled off course
Flooded by waves of dishonest discourse Before Hollywood and Broadway one sliver screen would divorce
Our future freedom from slavery and remorse
Blood and labor and words no savior
On roads and rails and rocks on street blocks
Laws to wrap the black lack in locks
dread locks and cops and knocks and knots
Locks and laws and loops from logs
backlogged black laws closed jaws and halls
freedom is someone who knows the walls
You live you learn you see no turn
so learn to know no way to earn
lose your job they rob your home your wife
A way of life is guns and strife
knot in back no friend but lack
black on black on black on black
Run from hoods in hoods and hide
when the moon is full in a land of lies
Sun by day means mad men by night
Free from chains but not from spite
for them deny and then deny
Washed away with whittle white sight
We musta been wrong when white is right
Cops on blocks in shops and hops
Watch for the Man on beat on stops
Crack on corners and broke back moms
peddle from job to job then sob
Mom and Dad Divorced by workforce
Paid pennies cus many "Too dim of Course!"
Get back, You black, No Slack, Take That
can't pay em the same they'll ruin our aim
For Good and Power and money to reign
From hungry to dummy to nummy and slain
held down by Presidents Planters and Pain
The Pain so well ingrained in brain
So train a child the way to grow
Get Money, Get Power, Get Good to Go
Get Smart was said, but a hard road to hoe
Moving the movement by Marching the Capital
But capital got capped and Anger got tapped
burning the bridges extended tween US
When Fed help medicate minds but menial
The gun clap on black when black on back
burn the bridge we all worked to track
but silent echoes sha clack sha clack
Attack is back so black react
We gamble on gravity with coin of Change
knowing the game ain't geared for gain
ignore the lack of footing in rain
For certain it's curtains yet playing the same
blinders on triggers on surprise when maimed
Forgotten the root so strange fruit ain't strange
Aged in grief raged in street
surprise when lame, inflamed, in heat
We old in defeat deranged and weak
Should have been focused on governing seats
Youth forgot when work was sought
In a world wide web the mind was bought
Trapped in chains unseen yet wrought
To dream is deemed an impure thought
Wonder why kids abandoned the plot
A dream deferred is a dream forgot
When truth repeats the gears don't stop
When voting is bought the truth gets locked
in cycles, in history, in catch phrase, and pop!
Black and White in Chains Distraught
Distraught no thought with teeth dry rot
the lot has rot and lost its hot
Slavery Antiquity and Dreaming De' mode'
Truth is Questioned and Fiction la Mode'
Truth is Fact too black for show
So Back too Black to Act just mold
Anger and fear our coal to hold
Remember regret, let go, too bold
So revolt loose canary for gold….
too late to leap the mind will fold
the future looks cold so cold so cold
but the dice we roll and roll and roll...
When Blacks in Stacks in Fear; The Facts.