Swoope - Wake Up Music lyrics

[Hook: Alex Faith & Dre Murray] Take a look at my face when you look at me Do you just see my race? In America just trying to find my place Take a look at my, Take a look at my face You listening America? Are you listening America? [Verse 1: Alex Faith] I woke up white in America trying to find my way Back home to a place that I've never been to Grateful to the Lord for another day And the system is failing us Handing out nooses on the regular That's what I see and we don't speak enough And even when we see it we don't do a thing about it I guess it doesn't affect is til we see a white body Laying dead in the street because the police shot him And most white neighborhoods don't have the same problems That the black ones face like every single day And the news don't say it because the corporations run it And the state run it all, politicians are a joke And the two party system just k**ing us all the more But let me fall back, I can hear my white friends packing bags and they're headed for the door [Hook] [Verse 2: Dre Murray] I woke up black in America just trying find my way No compa** for the day Beast roaming through the jungle on the prowl Got me feeling like the prey Can a congregation pray Sly fox on the tube infuse what to think and what to say That's the games they play Eastwood in the hood and he yelling out make my day That's why the sky so gray Why the flag so blue on the other side the flag so red My little homey from the Eastside opened the front door wide and took one to the head Nobody went fed as he laid in the doorway he cried out as he bled And this what he said Why play the hand I'm dealt when my own kind want me dead I'll just fold instead [Hook] [Verse 3: Swoope] I woke up shocked in America Eric G head locked in America Televised got shot on a cellular But not one cop locked in a cellie bruh It's really hard for me to put my trust in police ugh When they live by the gun But they die by the beach house chilling with their feet up Pensions and margaritas What kind of lies are they selling us? That we are post-racial? Because we post racial memes of King But never talk about the fact that he was shot by America Before the movie y'all didn't even know where Selma was Should I act like Huey or Little Rock Nine? When I know instead of open arms to welcome us They'd rather open arms, toolie or the Glock 9 Right in my face