Masterminds - Day One Lyrics
[Oracle]Ey Yo I'm slippin down a dark hole touchin my soulThink I'm rushin to the stars flash forward to zonesCan't move a single bone so I let out a moanWould burn every single poem I wrote just to reach homeFeel a rope around my neck tight wrip grip no slackthen I hear a whipe make a loud crackThen feel the flesh on my back split allowing blood to drip to the floorThen I hear a whole crowd roarWith my last bit of strength open my eyesTo see a pack of rednecks straight from 1905Could tell by the clothes thery wore and their broken grammarThat I was the main event of a lynching in AlabamaMy body started shaking stamina breaking downI screamed take me down they started laughing like clownsI wish I had a 4 pound or any automatic gunJust to see them crackers run like Satan had comeThen I heard the sheriff say "Hey, bring me his son."Now picture that want my little boy to see his Daddy get hungThen the sheriff turned to me and said "Ain't this fun?Well this is what you get for florting with a white woman"[Chorus] 2xEy yo from day one you see they try to take us underPolice with guns, and clans hanging us from lumberthe shit don't change no matter the time no matter the placeit all stays the same[Kimani]1963 and now I'm trapped in a Birmingham jailNext door to King sitting hand cuffed to the railI sailed through 3 generations of time but same predicamentCause now I'm deep in the thick of it, sick ofI started downtown shopping at Montgomery WardsWhere my mom sent me to buy a new ironing board>From down on Main Street, trooping through the summertime heatSweating bullets, came to the colored door and I pull itSeen this white girl in late teens, blond
