System Fight Back

They taught us be quiet

Taught us be small

Taught us accept

When they break the law

Blue badge, black glove

Same script, same shove

Say "comply or die"

Then write it off as love

Mama on the front steps

Blood on her shoes

Officer smiling

On the six o'clock news

You wonder why the city

Set fire to the sky?

They been choking us for ages

Now we breathing to survive

System fight back, we don’t stay scared

Hands in the air, but our mind prepared

You can load that gun, we gon’ load this truth

You can cage these bodies, can’t contain this proof

System fight back, we don’t die quiet

Turn our pain loud, turn a tear to riot

You can steal my brother, can’t erase his name

Write it on the pavement, make you feel that flame (hey!)

Judge got a golf club

Prosecutor got a grin

Paperwork thicker

Than the evidence within

Same face, same race

On every little bench

Talk about "justice"

From a gold-plated fence

We march, they mock

Say "return to your block"

But that block got chalk

Outline round the clock

If the rules rigged rotten

We rewrite the page

Turn trauma into thunder

Let it shake that cage (woah)

System fight back, we don’t stay scared

Hands in the air, but our mind prepared

You can load that gun, we gon’ load this truth

You can cage these bodies, can’t contain this proof

System fight back, we don’t die quiet

Turn our pain loud, turn a tear to riot

You can steal my brother, can’t erase his name

Write it on the pavement, make you feel that flame