We Could Be Free

We could be free
 If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other
 One day, I believe I'd learn
 To see my enemy as my brother
 Then we could be free, truly
 And love could wash away our sorrows
 I'm not afraid to bleed
 If it means, we'll make them better today not tomorrow
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 One day I dream of telling my momma
 "You ain't gotta work no more"
 Same for my father, born in Ghana, down on that dirt road floor
 As far as he came I can't complain, but pain is so subjective
 Spend so much time counting issues, I forget to count
 My blessings
 Watch my cousins back at home, getting water out a well
 While I watch my brother stacking stone, whipping water by the scale
 Tryna' get a mill' on the other side
 They ain't got a meal, we don't recognize we in heaven
 So we think we live in hell
 It's been getting kinda hard to tell
 But
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 Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky
 Asking why I'm alive when the realest niggas died
 And my pride won't let me give up, lord as hard as I try
 In those times I try to remember
 That we could be free
 If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other
 One day, I believe I'd learn
 To see my enemy as my brother
 Then we could be free, truly
 And love could wash away our sorrows
 I'm not afraid to bleed
 If it means, we'll make them better today not tomorrow
 I don't want to wait for the afterlife
 I don't want a vigil by candle light
 I don't want to be the new sacrifice
 I don't want to turn into a poltergeist
 Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams
 Momma crying at an open casket
 Cold as ice in a suit, 3 piece
 All dressed up for Sunday masses
 Pastor said put faith in God
 But faith alone can't make things right
 Who the fuck is you to patronize
 Somebody's son whose daddy died?
 Why they flood Baton Rouge?
 Why the city singing Alton's blues?
 Why, why, why, why?
 I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news
 What the fuck I got to lose?
 So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve
 You fools, saying "all lives matter"
 But it's black lives you refuse include
 Blocked from the polls
 Locked in the hood, trying to stop you from voting and stop you from growing
 And cops keep blowing and blowing
 Keep black people locked into cotton
 They don't want you to own, but
 Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky
 Asking why I survived all the days that I could have died
 Who am I in my place
 To contemplate suicide?
 In those times I try to remember
 That we could be free, truly
 If we'd only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other
 But I believe I'd learn
 To see my enemy as my brother
 Then we could be free, truly
 And we could wash away our sorrows
 I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means
 We'll make them better today not tomorrow
 Love (love)
 Love (love)
 To love my enemy as my brother
 (yeah yeah yeah)
 Make my enemy my brother
 Woah, oh, oh, oh
 Enemy my brother