You need to understand that my fate has caused me to bleed
Usually my voice has been silenced throughout history
But it's become an artillery
To you, comes the delivery
I'll paint you a thousand portraits with all this gloomy imagery
I am the underdog, not savage, I used to live civilly
But everything that's been important
Has been ripped from me
So understand how they imprison me
My plan was never a mystery
I wanted to live a happy life 'cause everyone lives so simply
I'm not asking for your sympathy, I need you to see me equal
And not just me, every one of my type of people
And my people doesn't involve
A certain race, creed, or a type of religion
It goes out to the hearts and minds
That were always wishing
That one day, they could escape
The very prison that kept them contained
So hard to flourish when from the very seed
You were surrounded by pain
No matter how hard I would try to get a taste of the rain
More trials and tribulations is the only thing I would gain
It became so hard to sustain, I can feel a mental breakdown
It's all scrambled in my brain, I jump at the lightest sounds
When once, I remember being so bright, I said I would astound
I've just witnessed so much lost life
Eventually a soul gets beat down
I've been oppressed in the stress, but the worst is the persecution
Always keep your head up, but I don't feel there is a solution
When corruption is demolished and humanity had improvement
So I'm stuck in this setting
While the rest of the world keeps moving
I'm a Kunta Kinte, Malcom X, Chief Sitting Bull, Louis Riel
Rosa Parks, Anne Frank, Trayvon Martin, Maher Arar
Edward Saeed, Ramarley Graham
Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi
Che Guevara, MLK, Bouazizi, Rachel Corrie