Promoe - White Man's Burden lyrics

(Verse 1) i grew up on some hardcore rap sh** battle spit, back to back - f** the wack sh** it was all gangsta rap and political black power once a week i'd tape radio's rap hour way before i thought about a hidden agenda i was hatin my white skin and hatin my gender didn't wanna represent rapists and murderers the white man's burden is not what you heard it is it ain't about a mission to christian the heathens but it's connected to that vision of us as superior beings and the world's darkest history his story is my story it ain't no mystery why our children seeking chemical relief infected by our parents' old cynical beliefs inherited like a genetical disease somebody help me please man i wanna be released! (Chorus) i can't carry the weight i can't hear the burden my heritage's too heavy for my shoulders can't burry the hate it bubble up to the surface and history repeat itself all over can't carry the weight i can't bear the burden my heritage's too heavy for my shoulders i can't bury the hate it bubble up to the surface now listen... (Verse 2) man i grew up in a little a** middle cla** town in the middle of nowhere, bitter and so scared and just like everybody else i was hiding it well some couldn't keep it inside, well they were either in jail or searching for life in the bottles and pills some tried, then commited suicide when it failed cus when the black cloud's filling your lungs you don't need to speak German to know the meaning of angst the hate, the blame, the razor blades the sedatives are your only relatives we take the blame for the grave mistakes and we cannot live with our lonely heritage and you might feel like i ain't grateful thinkin I'm hitchin cus i supposedly got it all but my skin is like itchin and as the bread of sorrow fills my belly i chew and swallow, but still feel empty cus... (Chorus) (Verse 3) as our children growin up in a white supremacy i ain't waiting for the backlash i fight the legacy cus it seems like they got another wolf-owitz for wolf-enson and both of which are from the wolf pack tuggin at our rear together with hawks, eagle, dragon and the bear slightly changed terminology but the same old philosophy this time their atrocities in the name of democracy for the savages that haven't yet squired the wisdom then i stop - think, who am i in this system? it f**s me up when i'm thinkin it through then i cheer up cus i'm thinkin of you and if you can love me, i can love me we can change, we can fight the ugly and you gave me these... i hear your words when i speak cus you ease and you share my burden and i can carry the weight when we share the burden ain't nothing that's too heavy for my shoulders we can conquer the hate we bring it up to the surface and listen to what history done told us i can carry the weight when we share the burden ain't nothing that's too heavy for my shoulders we can conquer the hate we bring it up to the surface and listen to what hïstory done told us