Listen - Styles

I gotta few things I wanna ask the Lord\nWhy my people gotta be so poor, feel me\nand why’s it so rough when you’re young and black\nThey say you go to jail or get strung on crack\nWhy the girl have a baby she was twelve years old\nAsk the state why the cell’s gotta be so cold\nand why these niggas here with so many years\nwhole family in court crying so many tears\ncan you picture us living with hope\nwhen the same ones hanging us is giving us dope\nshit, it’s hard to get by\nI pray to God it’s still hard to get by\nJust wanna hold my son\nbut I can’t leave my house until I load my gun\nI gotta grab my sword\nand when I die I got some things I wanna ask the Lord\nlike, why we dying from AIDS\nand why on TV it’s aight to be gay\naint that sorta like my gun got the right to be waved\nif I could sit back and watch a whole cipher of slaves\nask my man where the blacks at\nask myself where the next Malcolm X at\nIs he makin Salat, or upstate like a ape in a box\nam I a human or a fallen angel\ngot to pray by myself cuz I’m out of angle\nI aint facin the east, tell the brothers I was shakin the beast\nhad the nine and the eight in the streets\nopen your eyes, stay wise, cuz even Satan is deep\nI pray for a better living\neven though I think I’m better dying\nwhy, cuz I’d rather hear the angels singing\nwhy, and I don’t wanna hear my people crying, feel me black\nWe aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more\nBlack woman Listen\nYou aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more\nBlack child Listen\nWe gotta provide for y’all, I said we gotta provide for y’all\nDevil man Listen\nWe got a surprise for y’all, I said we got a surprise for y’all\nBlack man Listen\n'Bout to be on some clever shit\nI gotta think if the president is prejudice\nand that’s another eight years down\nthe 500 year warn, that’s a eight year round\nI don’t really mean to sweat it\nbut the war been on before they came on your TV and settle\nThey don’t need lead to shoot ya\nwhy would a man make a computer to head the future\nI think about it in a weed session\nThey said better technology, all I see is regressin\nblew up our buildings in fact\nbut if they live under the sun then them children is black\n'fore the devil get more time I’d rather see the world cease\nhit the afterlife of world peace\nwhere black men don’t die, the women don’t cry\nand the little kids get provided for and play in the sky, what