[Dick Gregory]

[hook]
At times, it seems like it's always been this hard,
but really it ain't been that long,
they made sure to break up our happy home,
but really it ain't been that long,
we had our own but they won't leave us alone,
ever wonder why they feel that strong,
we the people got something to say
but this ain't gon be that same ole song

[verse]
250 years a slave, 100 years afraid,
and 57 years of claiming everything's okay,
aye that's gaslighting at its highest peak,
the Sheppard fell asleep quietly,
noone expects rebellious sheep,
this hell is deep but not bottomless remember,
they exaggerate it to favor they own agenda,
tragedy after tragedy still we haven't surrendered,
fighting until gravity has no affect against us, damn.
That a clever way to speak of leaving,
we embrace it with open arms if that's the price for a piece of freedom, my granny was a housekeeper, for white people,
wit 6 kids and a husband who don't like people,
the heart turn cold as ice after life beat you,
so in turn you slight people to right evil,
that was done to you but karma's amazing,
that bitch move quick, not one to be played wit

[hook]
At times, it seems like it's always been this hard,
but really it ain't been that long,
they made sure to break up our happy home,
but really it ain't been that long,
we had our own but they won't leave us alone,
ever wonder why they feel that strong,
we the people got something to say
but this ain't gon be that same ole song

[verse]
Our distance is worse than our differences,
started in the church where the witness had wickedness,
whispering offense shit against the less fortunate,
the same people Jesus was walking wit,
often we get sidetracked living our best life,
another way of saying we suppressing our stress right,
a traumatic way of us processing pain,
the object of the game 'til we seconds from death like
it's no escape,
where they patrol but they don't relate,
where they downplay our own then appropriate,
where we can't sit at their table so we go and build one then they come and dictate what we chose to make,
now that's a sick obsession for oppression,
can't beat 'em and can't join 'em so what we left wit,
you can best believe we was never meant to be free in this capacity
and they have still yet to accept it

[hook]
At times, it seems like it's always been this hard,
but really it ain't been that long,
they made sure to break up our happy home,
but really it ain't been that long,
we had our own but they won't leave us alone,
ever wonder why they feel that strong,
we the people got something to say
but this ain't gon be that same ole song

[Dick Gregory]