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Drowning

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Drowning

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We gon' need some drugs for the situation

Shout out to my plug, its a lituation

Won't win it through litigation

All we ask is ventilation

I can't breathe, I can't breathe

I can't breathe, I can't breathe

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

When the real holds you down, you supposed to drown right?

Wait, wait, that don't sound right

Just wait, one second, that don't sound right

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

When the real holds you down, you supposed to drown right?

Wait, wait, that don't sound right

Just wait, one second, that don't (sound right)

I was high and I was startin' to lose focus

Then I stumbled in the water, I was trippin', I was chokin'

Saying, I can't breathe

Yeah, I can't breathe

Started floatin' way out in the open

'fore I knew it I was driftin' in the middle of the ocean

Saying, I can't breathe

Yeah, I can't breathe

Started wailin', started flailin'

I was splashing, waves crashing all around me

Felt the passion of the water

Saying, I can't breathe

Yeah, I can't breathe

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

Wait, wait, that don't sound right

Just wait, one second, that don't sound right

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

When the real holds you down, you supposed to drown right?

Wait, that don't sound right

Just wait, one second, that don't sound right

Dial tone on my hotline, it don't bling much

Sing songs like Tubman

Young Steven Morris, I ain't seen much

Just a couple motherfuckers tryna rape the culture

Tell the vultures I don't need lunch

It's like morse code

Gotta be in touch to communicate it to the people

Love heals all

Best get your immunization, that THC

So we smoking in here like we fumigating

For the fuckboys too much truth in me

I don't trust niggas

I ain't preaching at you

I don't touch boys

Brought the baggage with me

Like a bus boy I don't need tips

You could see mines

Rap Genius, you could read mines

In between lines

Yeah they act genius but the way society is set up

Almost like they read minds

You heard Alchemy, boy I'm Magneto

They can't read mines

Niggas bark loud

Talkin' revolution, when the waves come they turn feline

I been turnin' tricks

In the coldest part of the deepest water like a sealion, you could see why

We gon' need some drugs for the situation

Shout out to my plug, its a lituation

Won't win it through litigation

All we ask is ventilation

I can't breathe, I can't breathe

I can't breathe, I can't breathe

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown right?

Wait, wait, that don't sound right

Just wait one second, that don't sound right

When the real, hold you down, you supposed to drown

When the real, ohh hold you down, you supposed to drown

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown

When the real hold you down, you supposed to drown

I can't breathe I can't breathe no no no no no no no no no no no no auwwwww!

I was high and I was startin' to lose focus

Then I stumbled in the water, I was trippin', I was chokin'

Saying, I can't breathe

Yeah, I can't breathe

(I can't breathe with this muhfuckin' flag round my neck)

Started floatin' way out in the open

'fore I knew it I was driftin' in the middle of the ocean

Saying, I can't breathe

(I can't breathe with this muhfuckin' flag round my neck)

Yeah, I can't breathe

Started wailin', started flailin'

I was splashing, waves crashing all around me

Felt the passion of the water

Saying, I can't breathe

(I can't, I can't, I can't breathe with this muhfuckin' flag round my neck)

Yeah, I can't breathe

We gon' need some drugs for the situation

Shout out to my plug, its a lituation

Won't win it through litigation

All we ask is ventilation

We gon' need some drugs(love) for the situation

Shout out to my plug, its a lituation

Won't win it through litigation

All we ask is ventilation

I can't breathe, I can't breathe

I can't breathe, I can't breathe

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