Shad - How I Feel lyrics

Well, I could never imagine the pain in the mother's hearts When life takes a turn for the worse And creates another canvas that will never be completed I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated My energy's depleted but I want to stand and fight Swinging with the spirits that have traveled back and through the light I feel the tears and depression Fears and aggression Woven in society, from years of oppression The violence is normalized, silence is horrifying The truth is denied and the fact is that more are dying You don't have to tell how you feel Cause I can hear it in the cries And it's hard to listen- but listen Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships So the hearts conditioned to condition the air when the air that conditions keep cool But the more tears sometimes clear the vision [?] Now what I see been a long time coming The tribe running, rocking, reaching new peaks So that them young'uns can finally summit Climbing high above and then fly from it, up to the skies Over standing the corruption and the deconstructing the lies I've seen this country decline Try to keep discussions confined Hide the underside, over extract, and try to undermine Damn, but I still believe in the truth whether as an MC in the booth or a PhD in a suit Yo, when we yelling protest [?] feeling this peaceful We profess, we pro-testify the will of the people, tell them what they must know Turn it up loud, when we bust flows, not in hushed tones, speaking up, let the trust grow Now, you ain't gotta tell me how you feel Cause I can see it in your eyes You don't gotta tell me that the pain is real Cause I can hear it in your cry Well, it's the type of heartbreak that takes more than tears and time to stitch up And heal wounds and heal the scars that leave behind A separation from the fam, segregation on the land It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands It's all divide and conquer, colonize the slaughter Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers Now we see the daughters that are disappearing quickly See it through cracks while ignoring all the history Government's been scooping babies way before the 60's When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery So now you see the mystery is really not too complicated Justice is unequally distributed, my observation Money to be made while the kids are steady [?] Splitting up a family has now become an occupation And it's been part of the Occupation Since residential schools enforced starvation It's a nation with racism Here since the start of it Hard to let go cause it's carved in the heart of it Relation to the land and our rise, we're a part of it Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it And you don't have to tell me how you feel Cause I can see it in your eyes And they don't have to prove to me that pain is real Cause I can hear it in their cries