lirik lagu lito trinidá - dream (freestyle)
i remember a time
not too far in the past
where a torch lit a dream
that i thought couldve last
“give me your tired, your poor
the ones just tryna be free.”
but that sh~t was a lie
or at least not for me
see i didn’t come from nowhere
ya’ll the ones who brought me
tryna cop some cheap labor
thats how we all got here
from the african slaves
to the nannys from nicaragua
i’d rather be back home
sipping on a piragua
but i had to come out
catch the bag and chase paper
’cause you either run thе rat race
or get bought out later
ya’ll been building walls
lеtting ya’ll hearts turn cold
ya’ll say you love freedom
but ya’ll bitter and old
i remember a dream
but it feels like a lie—
the torch’s flame shuttered
straight out of the sky
yet still, in the shadows
resistance will grow
for the dream isn’t dead;
it’s just buried below
martin said he had a dream
malcolm said he had a bullet
i think we’re past the ballot
got a trigger? then pull it
yeah, martin had a dream
but malcolm had a vision
the future has arrived
time to make a decision
ya’ll just gunna stand down
lie down and just take it?
or we gunna rise up
split the difference and make it?
i’m tryna keep the peace
thats why i just write poems
but ya’ll stay violent
with ya’ll orders and omens
malcolm said it best
it’s no time to be soft
“get the ballot, get the bullet
or get both and go off.”
because what to the slave
is the fourth of july?
if we’re asked to behave
but are force~fed lies
the american dream?
a repetitive nightmare
twice the work for half the credit
this sh~ts never been fair
james baldwin wrote
notes as a native son
and i respect the perspective
but i think that sh~ts done
you can’t eat at the table
when there’s no plate for you
just sitting there starving
ain’t gun’ make it all true
so big respect to ghandi
and those who battle hunger
but it’s time to wake up
from the hypnosis and slumber
take arms and eat up
cause its time to march on
from selma to seattle
the battles only begun
i said
take arms and eat up
cause its time to march on
from la to new york
we gotta battle as one
take arms and eat up
cause its time to march on
from selma to seattle
the battles only begun
i said
take arms and eat up
cause its time to march on
from la to new york
we gotta battle as one
resegregating the nation
was thought beyond contemplation
but because we got complacent
racism is again patent
before it just lie latent
but now its all in our faces
there really is some people
unequally viewing races
racists, fascists, n~z~s and thugs
these words mean something
and they’re united as one
racists, fascists, n~z~s and thugs
like a blast from the past
of the wars that we won
take your bans, take your orders
take your walls and your threats
but remember this struggle
cause the world won’t forget
you claim liberty’s torch
yet you stifle its flame
pushing greed and exclusion
bringing shame to our name
i remember the torch
and how perfect it seemed
a symbol of freedom
a light towards our dream
but the dream was a cage
an illusion of gold
wrapped in slogans of freedom
while the truth went untold
malcolm expected the bullet
while martin dreamed of the peace
when will we settle our hunger
and put an end to the feast?
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