Bystanders by Everyman Entertainment Lyrics
[Verse 1: Klover]
This is the tale of a black man
God damn
I can't
Sit back and break these handcuffs off my right hand
The institution that created confusion
It didn't matter when the CO spit in my pudding
There's these codes that come with freedom you wouldn't know
Cause you in the streets, packing heat, hotter than a beach
Do it for your fam even if you know you can't
You like the star in the sky waiting for you chance
To shine bright
Live in the lime life
Grab my deuce deuce from the poor to a porsche life
What it is when your nights like this
I can't roll my spliff cause I'm locked like smith
[Hook: Klover (x2)]
Still got brothers on the block
Screaming fuck the cops
Let off shots
Won't stop until I'm in the box
This that real for real
He could kill
At any minute
I'm just tryna let my family win it
[Verse 2: Indigo Misstress]
I'm a revolutionary so my life is kind of scary
Wake up in a cell on a daily
Feeling wary
Can't be thinking really clearly so my mind's off track
Tryna write a track but the pen done cracked
Try to keep my sanity but I done snapped
Claustrophobic
Trapped in two places at a time and no one knows it
God opened a door, Satan closed it
He'll take away the key to the cell
And leave you in hell
But you can't take away my bars
Behind these bars
Homie I got scars under these scars
I been out here, ha! Fighting for the cause
47 years, got hit with a charge
Ever since I've been planning my escape
I gotta be invisible to chase
I gotta pull a micro prison break
At the company to break
Now the guards is on my back tryna get me to break
Ain't no going back, no wiping the slate
Feel like I'm running out of time so lets cut to the chase
Before your existence I erase
Solitary Confinement
Is the only place where your mind is replaced
So I'm popin off
That's right I'm popin off
So I'm popin off
That's right I'm popin off
[Hook (x2)]
[Verse 3: King Gisa]
I wanna live a better life
I wanna live a better life
I wanna live a better life
I wanna live in a better world
Tonight
And I know I'm never gonna see it in my lifetime
Fuckit I'm a do it so I see it in my lifeline
People want change but be screaming in the sidelines
Driving into traffic and I'm passing every stop sign
Crashing into pigs
And mis informed kids
Put your gun down homie is this how you wanna live?
Naw homie
Naw homie
I'm seeing what you doing
But don't see what you proving
You write a facebook status
But that don't really do shit
They take away my actions
And that's why we been losing
Preaching stop the killing
And now watch them start the shooting
Have you even asked yourself
What the fuck have I been doing?
You say you love your culture, but really just abuse it
But really just abuse it
Lemme guess, you gonna blame it on the music?
Record me I'm dying and ya'll don't even do shit
The cops wanna help me, stop playing like you stupid
Just watch me go lifeless and preach stop the violence
Camera's don't do shit if you don't open up your eyelids
[Hook]
Still got brothers on the block
Screaming fuck the cops
Let off shots
Won't stop until I'm in the box (Open up your eyelids)
This that real for real
He could kill
At any minute
I'm just tryna let my family win it
This is the tale of a black man
God damn
I can't
Sit back and break these handcuffs off my right hand
The institution that created confusion
It didn't matter when the CO spit in my pudding
There's these codes that come with freedom you wouldn't know
Cause you in the streets, packing heat, hotter than a beach
Do it for your fam even if you know you can't
You like the star in the sky waiting for you chance
To shine bright
Live in the lime life
Grab my deuce deuce from the poor to a porsche life
What it is when your nights like this
I can't roll my spliff cause I'm locked like smith
[Hook: Klover (x2)]
Still got brothers on the block
Screaming fuck the cops
Let off shots
Won't stop until I'm in the box
This that real for real
He could kill
At any minute
I'm just tryna let my family win it
[Verse 2: Indigo Misstress]
I'm a revolutionary so my life is kind of scary
Wake up in a cell on a daily
Feeling wary
Can't be thinking really clearly so my mind's off track
Tryna write a track but the pen done cracked
Try to keep my sanity but I done snapped
Claustrophobic
Trapped in two places at a time and no one knows it
God opened a door, Satan closed it
He'll take away the key to the cell
And leave you in hell
But you can't take away my bars
Behind these bars
Homie I got scars under these scars
I been out here, ha! Fighting for the cause
47 years, got hit with a charge
Ever since I've been planning my escape
I gotta be invisible to chase
I gotta pull a micro prison break
At the company to break
Now the guards is on my back tryna get me to break
Ain't no going back, no wiping the slate
Feel like I'm running out of time so lets cut to the chase
Before your existence I erase
Solitary Confinement
Is the only place where your mind is replaced
So I'm popin off
That's right I'm popin off
So I'm popin off
That's right I'm popin off
[Hook (x2)]
[Verse 3: King Gisa]
I wanna live a better life
I wanna live a better life
I wanna live a better life
I wanna live in a better world
Tonight
And I know I'm never gonna see it in my lifetime
Fuckit I'm a do it so I see it in my lifeline
People want change but be screaming in the sidelines
Driving into traffic and I'm passing every stop sign
Crashing into pigs
And mis informed kids
Put your gun down homie is this how you wanna live?
Naw homie
Naw homie
I'm seeing what you doing
But don't see what you proving
You write a facebook status
But that don't really do shit
They take away my actions
And that's why we been losing
Preaching stop the killing
And now watch them start the shooting
Have you even asked yourself
What the fuck have I been doing?
You say you love your culture, but really just abuse it
But really just abuse it
Lemme guess, you gonna blame it on the music?
Record me I'm dying and ya'll don't even do shit
The cops wanna help me, stop playing like you stupid
Just watch me go lifeless and preach stop the violence
Camera's don't do shit if you don't open up your eyelids
[Hook]
Still got brothers on the block
Screaming fuck the cops
Let off shots
Won't stop until I'm in the box (Open up your eyelids)
This that real for real
He could kill
At any minute
I'm just tryna let my family win it