Common - Black America Again lyrics

[Intro] *Alton Sterling Incident* [Verse: Common] Here we go, here here we go again Trayvon’ll never get to be an older man Black children, they childhood stole from them Robbed of our names and our language, stole again Who stole the soul from black folk? Same man that stole the lamb from cheap black smoke And made the whip crackle on our back slow And made us go through the back door And rap for black bodies on the slave blocks Now we slave to the blocks, on ’em we spray shots Leaving our own to lay in a box Black mother’s stomachs stay in a knot We k** each other, it’s part of the plot I wish the hating will stop (war) I know that black lives matter and they matter to us These are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, ma** incarceration Instead of educate, they’d rather convict the kids As dirty as the water in Flint, the system is Is it a felony or a misdemeanor Maria Sharapova making more than Serena It took Viola Davis to say this The rose of the help and the gangsters Is really all they gave us We need Avas, (?), and Corey Bookers This all of the Earth to get us off of sugar And greasy foods, I don’t believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we refuse Brainwashed in the cycle to spin We write our own story, black America again [Outro: Stevie Wonder] You know, you know, you know. One way of solving a lot of problems we got is to let a person feel like somebody and a man can’t get himself together until he knows who he is and be proud of what and who he is, and where he come from, and where he come from We are rewriting the black American story We are rewriting the black American story We are rewriting the black American story We are rewriting the black American story