We Could Be Free (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

Love, love, haha, yeah

We could be free

If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other

One thing I believe, I could learn

To see my enemy as my brother

Then we could be free, truly

And love could wash away all the sorrows

I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means

We'll make a better today, not tomorrow

One day I dream of telling my momma

"You ain't gotta work no more"

Same for my father, born in Ghana

Down on that dirt road floor

As far as he came I can't complain

But pain is so subjective

Spend so much time countin' issues

I forget to count my blessings

Watch my cousins back at home

Getting water out a well

While I watched my brother stacking stone

Whippin' water by the scale

Tryna' get a mill' on the other side

They ain't got a meal, we don't recognize we in heaven

So we think we live in hell

It's been getting kinda hard to tell, but

Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky

Asking why I'm alive when the realest niggas die

But my pride won't let me give up Lord, as hard as I try

In those times I try to remember

That we could be free

If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other

One thing I believe, if I could learn

To see my enemy as my brother

Then we could be free, truly

And love could wash away all the sorrows

I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means

We'll make a better today, not tomorrow

Love (yeah) love (yeah)

Love, we'll make a better day, not tomorrow

I don't want to wait for the afterlife

I don't want a vigil by candlelight

I don't want to be the new sacrifice

I don't want to turn into a poltergeist

Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams

Momma cryin' at an open casket

Cold as ice in a suit, three-piece

All dressed up for Sunday masses

Pastors said put faith in God

But faith alone can't make things right

Fuck is you to patronize somebody's son who daddy died?

Why they flood Baton Rouge?

Why the city singing Alton's blues?

Why, why, why, why?

I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news

What the fuck I got to lose?

So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve

You fools, saying "all lives matter"

But it's black lives you refuse include

Blocked from the polls, locked in the hood

Trying to stop you from voting and stop you from growing

And cops keep blowing and blowing

Keep black people rocking the cotton they don't want you to own but

Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky

Asking why I survived all the days that I could have died

Who am I in my place to contemplate suicide?

In those times I try to remember

That we could be free, truly

If we'd only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other

One thing I believe, I could learn

To see my enemy as my brother

Then we could be free, you and me

And love could wash away all the sorrows

I'm not afraid to bleed

If it makes a better day than tomorrow

Cause only

Love (tells somebody)

Love (to make my enemy my brother)

Love (whoa whoa whoa whoa)

Make a better today, not tomorrow

Whoa, yeah

Whoa, yeah

Oh oh oh, yeah

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah, yeah yeah yeah

Make my enemy my brother

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah yeah yeah yeah