I know where I'm aiming
Got love but they hatin'
I'm bound but I'm patient
I've been here before
I know where I'm aiming
Got love but they hatin'
I'm bound but I'm patient
I've been here before
Less I put it into words
You don't get it
I'm not heard
There's no freedom
We just watch it from the birds
And then you wonder why we hurt
Coz no gangster ever listens to a nerd
Who seems to have it all together like buttons on a shirt
That's how a blind man thinks
Money, power and Greed, is how the blind man sinks
Come after dark that's when his demons hang loose from that gin
Watch him turn into a monster in his own black skin
But that's no black man sin
That's no black man ting
I mean I only see my hero through a TV screen
Doing drugs, or even sippin steadily on that lean
He would change, but freedom given to him is no freedom, it's a cage
With the liberty to pray and not engage
Given to him is the liberty to choose
But then the liberty to choose kills him slower than his liberty to move
You see at work the slave is given opportunity to groom
Make the moves but the slave is not entitled to improve
It's like a house without a roof, like a bed without a room
You're as big as you can dream so dream on and do you
Pay your hours for the dreams, that you wish to see through
But stay true, it's really hard to kill and burry the truth
But then of course, you know how the pressure has the perks
Like doubting if you're enough and questioning why it hurts
Second guessing your worth
Lost between a gift, and the karma behind the curse
Coz the system's for the crooked not the straight its rehearsed
These are A+ notes, Eih plus no jokes
If this is healing
It is water come drink don't choke
Don't you lose that hop
Black man don't fold
I'm 24 years old
But Being blessed still got me broke
Nothing changed. Being black is what they hate me for
Is what they hate me for
I know where I'm aiming
Got love but they hatin'
I'm bound but I'm patient
I've been here before
I know where I'm aiming
Got love but they hatin'
I'm bound but I'm patient
I've been here before