Well I could never imagine the pain that the mother saw

When life takes a turn for the worst and creators all

Becomes another canvas that will never be completed

I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated

My energy is depleted

But I wanna stand and fight

So we can move the spirit instead travel back into the light

I feel the fears and depression

Fears and aggression

Woven into society from years of oppression

The violence is normalized

Silence is horrifying

Truth is denied and the fact is that more are dying

You don't have to tell me how you feel

'Cause I can hear it in their cries

And it's hard to listen, but listen

'Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships

Still the heart's conditioned to condition the air

When they air their conditions, keep cool

But the more tears, sometimes the clearer the vision

Now what I see, been a long time coming

The Tribe, running, rocking, reaching new peaks

So them youngins can finally summit

Climbin' high above and then flying from it, up to the skies

And over standing the corruption and deconstructing the lies

I've seen this country decline

Trying to keep discussions confined

Hide the underside

Over-extract and try to undermine

Damn, but I still believe in the truth

Whether it's an MC in a booth, or a PhD in a suit

Yo when we yelling protest, tell 'em the feeling is peaceful

We profess, we pro-testify to the will of the people

Tell them what they must know

Turn it up loud when we bust flows

Not in hushed tones, speaking up, let the trust grow

Now you don't gotta tell me how you feel

'Cause I can see it in your eyes

You don't gotta tell me that the pain is real

'Cause I can hear it in your cry

Well, it's the type of heartbreak that takes more than tears and time to

Stitch up any wounds and heal the scars they leave behind

Separation from the fam, segregation on the land

It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands

It's all divide and conquer

Colonize and slaughter

Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers

Now we see our daughters that are disappearing quickly

Say it's through the cracks while ignoring all the history

Governments been scooping babies way before the sixties

When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery

So now you see the mystery, is really not too complicated

Justice isn't equally distributed in my observation

Money could be made, while the kids are steady isolated

Splitting up a family has now become an occupation

And it's been part of the occupation

Since residential schools enforced starvation

It's a nation with racism here since the start of it

Hard to let go cause it's carved in the heart of it

Relation to the land and our rise were a part of it

Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it

And you don't have to tell me how you feel

'Cause I can see it in your eyes

And they don't have to prove to me that the pain is real

'Cause I can hear it in their cries