VIC MENSA FEAT. YUSEF & WYATT WADDELL - NO MORE TEARDROPS
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more (Hold on!), no more teardrops No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no more No teardrops, no more teardrops
Police on fire in the streets Tear gas and the dogs on a The scene seem like in the sixties They takin' knees Monica Lewinsky beating women like Bobby did Whitney That's why the only blue we salute is to Juneteenth at the precinct Hanging by the pigtails, burned down Strange fruits still from the trees White folks protesting 'cause they can't Try to life, that's a real quarantine They just take the off when they can't breathe But we got officers knees in our Face blue 'cause he out of oxygen Got his blew by one of his accomplices Add you to the list of his He forward in the night, now we're mourning fist up to no-knock warrants But the fascism ain't the only army Look at the way the patriarchy took and him Look at the blood, the filled with teardrops I ain't slavin' for 'em, I ain't 'bout to crop off, my wrist lock in gridlock I'm with this shits, nigga, 'til the bullshit
No teardrops, no more teardrops No teardrops, no more tears No more teardrops, no teardrops No teardrops, no more tears
I'm tired of only seein' niggas at the Tired of learnin' my homie's at the eulogy I'm tired of wearin' suits, man, ain't suitable I'm tired of runnin', but the cops shooting me Niggas dyin' and we still jewelry Nigga, ain't the time for the tomfoolery A sign of the times, shit ain't it used to be I a hoodie on, look at what they do to me .223 cocked, I don't need a This Wall Street, we done got a They try to tell us to in the government But even when Barack is president, had to sell rocks One out of niggas in the cell block The other fourteen, don't nobody about I'm in the courtroom pullin' my out 'Cause I get another year for one of my dreadlocks At times, you gotta fight to get your life back But if you fight back, you might get your jacked And just to back, you gotta have the right stack 'Cause Johnny Cochran gonna hit you the price tag Malcolm X, Huey Newton, don't like that Hell, nah, they don't like that nigga try to hit me with a nightstick I'm going for my clip, I ain't goin' out that
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops, no tears No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no more
Can you feel pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, time for a change! (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, It's for a change! I I'm at war All I wanted to do was live without fear (All he wanted, wanted) Now I'm all up (All tied up) nowhere to go (Nowhere to go, oh)
Spiritual negro, keeper of the My heart and the Holy (I hear) Of the South (I hear) First I assert my memory, rockin' my (I hear) They observed I had a cottonmouth, when I (I hear) I spit fire that was up in my bones, then I smoke (I hear) though, our skin-folk into kinfolk That's what I kept my on a swivel for in this, uncivil war They me to shut up and dribble more Black soil, got from the dirt Struggle, marriage, still in combat Looking for real men and I'm next Turing Birmingham into a hot to feed my youngins they dug it (dug it, dug it)