INSOMNIAC (woke)
[Chorus: will.i.am]
Woke, woke
Waking up, waking up (woke)
Woke like that (woke)
We stay up, insomniac
[Verse 1: LGP Qua]
Shoutout the Eagles, we did it, we brought the ring back
So when I tell you change gon' come, better believe that
Go get a diploma, youngin sayin' I don't need that
He'd rather grip a thirty, rob a n***a with a ski mask
Streets is where the good die young, man it’s sad to say
Just graduated Friday, got killed Saturday
If you get a job they laugh at you, that’s the petty wave
If you go to jail, they don't care, they think you passed away
Back then, n***as they was loyal, not the same now
Nowadays your own man will rob you, look at A-Town
Colin Kaepernick, I support you, hands down
Taught us how to stand up, why you think we kneel down?
Valentines Day turned to a massacre when shots through
Seventeen people got killed in a Florida high school
Tell these little girls you a queen, that's the right move
More to life than twerking on the 'Gram and getting likes boo
Time to stop the hatin', time to make improvement now
Time to stop the killings and shootings and all the suicide
From the city brotherly love, you know it's do or die
Time to come together, stick together like a unibrow
I won’t sell my soul cause my pride won’t allow it (woke)
I ain’t selling drugs, nah, I'm just giving knowledge
Youngin had a bright future, could've went to college
But he chilled with his boys on the corner, then they shot him
[Chorus: will.i.am]
Woke, woke, woke
Waking up (woke), woke like that (woke)
We stay up, insomniac
Waking up (woke), woke like that (woke)
We stay up, insomniac
[Verse 2: will.i.am]
We went from African auctions to affirmative action
It's apparent they hated our parents 'cause of they black skin
I questions our actions, like what are we doing?
Our ancestors passed on a fight we aren’t pursuing
We went from blacks chained up to blacks locked up
To cops on the block trained to get us all shot up
I question our reaction, like why are we distracted?
Trapped in a zoo like they caught a blank panther
We hustle and hustle and gain no wealth
We wrestle and we crumble down due to bad health
We caught up in the struggle, struggle with knowledge itself
Don't wanna be the leader, quick to follow someone else
Our daily dilemma seems to never be defeated
Our deadly egos, they need to be depleted
Social media activism should be deleted
'Cause the revolution won’t be a revolution
If the revolution is only tweeted and retweeted
Woke, woke
Waking up, waking up (woke)
Woke like that (woke)
We stay up, insomniac
[Verse 1: LGP Qua]
Shoutout the Eagles, we did it, we brought the ring back
So when I tell you change gon' come, better believe that
Go get a diploma, youngin sayin' I don't need that
He'd rather grip a thirty, rob a n***a with a ski mask
Streets is where the good die young, man it’s sad to say
Just graduated Friday, got killed Saturday
If you get a job they laugh at you, that’s the petty wave
If you go to jail, they don't care, they think you passed away
Back then, n***as they was loyal, not the same now
Nowadays your own man will rob you, look at A-Town
Colin Kaepernick, I support you, hands down
Taught us how to stand up, why you think we kneel down?
Valentines Day turned to a massacre when shots through
Seventeen people got killed in a Florida high school
Tell these little girls you a queen, that's the right move
More to life than twerking on the 'Gram and getting likes boo
Time to stop the hatin', time to make improvement now
Time to stop the killings and shootings and all the suicide
From the city brotherly love, you know it's do or die
Time to come together, stick together like a unibrow
I won’t sell my soul cause my pride won’t allow it (woke)
I ain’t selling drugs, nah, I'm just giving knowledge
Youngin had a bright future, could've went to college
But he chilled with his boys on the corner, then they shot him
[Chorus: will.i.am]
Woke, woke, woke
Waking up (woke), woke like that (woke)
We stay up, insomniac
Waking up (woke), woke like that (woke)
We stay up, insomniac
[Verse 2: will.i.am]
We went from African auctions to affirmative action
It's apparent they hated our parents 'cause of they black skin
I questions our actions, like what are we doing?
Our ancestors passed on a fight we aren’t pursuing
We went from blacks chained up to blacks locked up
To cops on the block trained to get us all shot up
I question our reaction, like why are we distracted?
Trapped in a zoo like they caught a blank panther
We hustle and hustle and gain no wealth
We wrestle and we crumble down due to bad health
We caught up in the struggle, struggle with knowledge itself
Don't wanna be the leader, quick to follow someone else
Our daily dilemma seems to never be defeated
Our deadly egos, they need to be depleted
Social media activism should be deleted
'Cause the revolution won’t be a revolution
If the revolution is only tweeted and retweeted