Paternity Leave Intro - Starlito

Pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

Not a activist, I’m a realist, could care less if you don’t feel this

Fed up, that food for thought that they feeding us ain’t fulfilling

How we supposed to want peace when we the ones that they killing

Kaepernick wasn’t nothing like Officer Chauvin kneeling

Learned about Dr. King, but then I saw Rodney King

Why can’t we just get along, all we got is a dream

Reality is I’m Black, so that mean a lot of things

I’m feared, I’m scared, I’m scarred, I’m strapped, nahmean

Far more likely to get killed by someone that look just like me

It’s hard beating the odds with all these demons I’m fighting

Police see me get frightened, wanna read me my rights

Don’t get me wrong, tryna put it all in a song

They done pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

And they done pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

I got a daughter and they abducting lil' girls without warning

News barely report it, but who am I to ignore it?

They too busy brainwashing us, distract us from the fact

That they ain’t offering us help, thanks officers

Choke us out and then tell us the autopsy said COVID

Genocide slash civil war, y’all thought this was over?

Skeptical of the protests when corporations promote it

Had some hope but they stole it, our reparations condolences

Don’t mean to sound bitter, once you consider

I ran up a million dollars and guess what, I’m still a nigga

Beat a criminal case, gotta settle out on a civil

If I ever told you I love you, whatever I got I’ll give you

But they done pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

But they done pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

I got a voice, and I know I might lose it if I don’t use it

Fell out of love with music, afraid of my own influence

Still ain’t got much to say, I’m in a state of confusion

Gotta start with myself if I wanna make an improvement

I don’t make all the rules, but I don’t make no excuses

I don’t think things gone change, at least not anytime soon

Shit, we been looting and marching before I got here

They still shooting, we the targets, no it’s not fair

I watch the news, read them articles, it don’t stop there

Killing our own kind, really they don’t mind

We die in these streets or sit in prison a long time

Even with a little wisdom and strong mind

They done pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

But they done pushed me to my limit like a foreign when you rent it

I ain’t going, cuz they know I was born, not sworn in it

Not to mention that I’m still war torn and tormented

Recorded this just to vent, I been chilling out for a minute

«This is the streets talking for themselves.

They don’t NEED me right now.

I kept my mouth shut.

And I’ll STILL keep my mouth shut.

But don’t think that

my silence is complicit.»