(Intro - Muzică soul/funk)
(Verse 1)
Checking the news and reading statistics
Too many men of color have been fingerprinted, yeah
It's not a game, let me tell you why
Another form of slavery, legal genocide
Open your eyes and you will see
They're building more prisons for you and me
Locked up on the streets and Lord that's cold
Gotta report to somebody 'cause I'm on parole
(Chorus)
Brotherman, killing your people
Brotherman, selling that evil
Brotherman, hit the hood with the addiction, causing pain and affliction
Get back what we're missing
(Verse 2)
Remember the days, playing stickball in the street?
Now the kids are afraid of the sound of their own feet
They promise us dreams on a television screen
But the only way up feels crooked and mean
They bleed the community, then they call it a flaw
While they write another discriminatory law
We're fighting each other for the smallest of scraps
Falling right into their well-laid traps, yeah
(Chorus)
Brotherman, killing your people
Brotherman, selling that evil
Brotherman, hit the hood with the addiction, causing pain and affliction
Get back what we're missing
(Bridge)
Look in the mirror, tell me what do you see?
Is it a king with a lost legacy?
Or just another number they can throw away?
We can change the story, starting today
We gotta break the cycle, break the chains
Wash away the hatred, through all the rains
It ain't about pride, it's about survival
Turn the page on this self-destruction revival!
(Solo de chitară/orgă - plin de pasiune și suflet)
(Chorus - mai intens, cu ad-libs)
Brotherman! Oh, killing your people!
Brotherman! Stop selling that evil!
Brotherman, hit the hood with the addiction, causing pain and affliction
Get back what we're missing!
(Outro)
Brotherman... listen to me, Brotherman...
Put the poison down...
Lift your brother from the ground...
Yeah...
We gotta find our way back...
Find our way back home...
Brotherman...
(Muzica se stinge lent)
