How I Feel

Well I could never imagine the pain that the mother saw
 When life takes a turn for the worst and creators all
 Becomes another canvas that will never be completed
 I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated
 My energy is depleted
 But I wanna stand and fight
 So we can move the spirit instead travel back into the light
 I feel the fears and depression
 Fears and aggression
 Woven into society from years of oppression
 The violence is normalized
 The silence is horrifying
 Truth is denied and the fact is more are dying
 You don't have to tell me how you feel
 Cause I can hear it in your cries
 It's hard to listen, but listen
 Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships
 Still the heart's conditioned to condition the air
 When they air their conditions,
 Keep cool But the more tears, sometimes the clearer the vision
 Now what I see, been a long time coming
 The Tribe, running, rocking, reaching new peaks
 So them youngins can finally summit
 Climbing high above and then flying from it, up to the skies
 Overstanding the corruption and deconstructing the lies
 I've seen this country decline
 Trying to keep discussions confined
 Hide the underside
 Over-extract and try to undermine
 Damn, but I still believe in the truth
 Whether it's an MC in a booth, or a PhD in a suit
 Yo when we yelling protest, tell em the feeling is peaceful
 We profess, we pro-testify to 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 don'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 any wounds and heal the scars they leave behind
 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 and slaughter
 Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers
 Now we see our daughters that are disappearing quickly
 Say it's through the cracks while ignoring all the history
 Governments be scooping babies way before the 60s
 When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery
 So now you see the mystery, is really not too complicated
 Justice isn't equally distributed in my observation
 Money could be made, while the kids are steady isolated
 And 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 were 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 the pain is real
 Cause I can hear it in their cries