Swell - Let Me Live (prod. by Swell and Nox) lyrics

[Verse 1] I'm always hard working at working hard Still I feel I never play my part Always tryna be a better brother but my sister look at me like I'm a star Always try to be a better son, but my momma tell me that I do enough Bro's from the hood hit my phone and they always say I don't come thru enough I wonder which is true? At times I feel I got so much to do I don't know what to do n***as think I'm living comfortable but being comfortable is uncomfortable, I'm tryna' do more Rarely ever do I sleep in Rarely ever do I sleep at all It's harder dreaming since a n***a cut back on alcohol, got to many thoughts Wonder if I might die at my next traffic stop Wonder if I stay on break to long writing songs, will I lose my job? Wonder if I even give a f** I Know my boss, he don't give a f** I'm really just another dark skin n***a he can use to make money from Think I don't notice? Think I don't notice? Think I don't notice all the side eyes every time another n***a die on the channel 6 news by the hands of the cops Then they leave his dead Black body in the middle of the Black road and all the Black people gotta watch What you think that do to a n***a? What you think it do to us n***as? When they feel the only way they gon' stay safe is k**ing more n***as When I feel the only way I'm gon' stay safe is being dead Why America find it so hard to let me live? [Verse 2] No more hanging out the window with them 9 millimeters Where I'm from they run up on you on your porch with the heaters Ain't just n***as k**ing n***as Yoppers out here banging Undercover cops on the corner crack slanging If you think that we the problem, well my n***a tell me something How it's cops on every block and the d** still coming? n***as still dying Crime still peaking Increasing the policing, what my people need is freedom Talking jobs and education f** incarceration Modern day plantation Caught up in the Matrix Neo whipping yola in the basement, Niobe t**ng Morpheus packing the metal for them agents lurking n***as tryna play Smith catch a Smith and Wesson Tryna say I'm born cursed but my skin a blessing Danny Glover with the flow, I got them lethal weapons Even straight out of the bottle they won't get the message