I stand like a sentinel
Steeped in the streetlight, savagery's conventional
Mass riots and protests the minimal
Dominant culture, they killing off my kin and you

Sit and watch the profile, the program
Media, they manipulate, they go ham
Selling cigarettes they shove down a brotha's neck
No respect for the spirit or the intellect

Survivor to the most apocalyptic
Conspiracy in history, living out a mystery
Who done it, the shots come in, the cops gun it
Fill your melon with gun shellings, you not running

Best make peace with the holy ghost
When the po po roll, they keep the 40 close
Blow a hole back through the homie's coat
There's no love for my peeps, that's why they gang so

Blood clot, blood red, no joke
We need the Panthers back to protect the poor folk
Less talk, more action need to be about
Uniform my people before they see us out

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My people unite, and let's all get down
I gotta ha ha have it
I gotta ha ha have it
I gotta ha ha have that love
System, systematic way of killing
Judges giving leniency to a public lynching
Hands to the ceiling, men, women, children
Gaza to the Philippines, California to Ferguson

Living like it's the last, there's a target on my back
When the man who on patrol don't know the place where he at
Cause he live about five towns away
They buried Michael Brown today

And this ill force sittin' on a coroner's bin
Neither boy had a weapon just melanin in the skin
They trippin' that we trippin', that we're visibly pissed
Like they ain't out here killing our kids

Gassing the air that we breathe
This ain't a warzone, this is our home, you leave
And you can add another gallon of tear gas it's fine
Cause I've been cryin' over the children out here dyin'

We weren't at war with them but they will murder I
Hand to the most high when they murder I

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They tryin' to kill us slow
Tryin' to get rid of a billion Africans or more
Secret society laws they don't abide
It's wild outside and AIDS is genocide
Understand it's a plan of combat
The uniform, the badge, the gun, the contract
Matter fact, what does POLICE stand for?
Protection of Life in Civil Establishment or not?

Murder us everyday, none on the news or channel 4
Take one of us out hoping that triggers us for war
I can see your fear mask, like a near death
Lady on a baby pass throwing teargas

Us against them, or how they make it appear as
They said you had a look like you had a gat, and had a blast
Cops shot him walking out the store on his way to class
Didn't resist, hands in the air, stayed clam

2 in head, 2 in the chest, unarmed
Get a life sentence for drug and gun charge
They say the rest at large, you under oath
And use lieutenant Johnson as a scapegoat

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