All of Us - Chris Orrick, Apollo Brown

If Eric Garner looked like me, he would’ve never been killed

Never be a grand jury sorting evidence till

A prosecutor swaying minds busy pressing his will

Upon the biased minds of racists who remember that deal

Back when plantation owners gave fake ownership to white folks

And human nature’s ugliness got balanced on that tight rope

Set up a system for instilling the hate

The consequences of a hatred we’re still feeling today

That little bit of privilege given set us up for preconditioned

Notions of humanity that only cold insanity

Could ever seek to justify, a sick and deep disgusting lie

That keeps us all from seeing what would happen if we undermined

This fucking system that we live in, pushing us in subdivisions

Keep all directions pointed inward, not at those appointed

At those who exploit us

How much longer can they avoid it?

All of us got to love and all of us got to bleed

It isn’t what’s up above, in that mirror what do you see?

All of us want to live and all of us want to breath

All of us want to grow

So where the fuck do we go?

I hope your fire burns bright enough

I hope those hands can reach high enough

Cops killing children, murderers making millions

How dare us feeling that Darren Wilson’s a villain?

They made a villain of Michael Brown and he died for it

Wilson killed an unarmed kid and he wasn’t tried for it

I gotta ask, what if it happened to you?

What if that was your son what do you imagine you’d do?

I think the sickest shit about it is

White people see a Black mother crying and it doesn’t make them think about

their kids

All people want in life is to be allowed to live

America just told Black people that their lives' amount to shit

And I’m sick of hearing people trying to justify it

Shut your fucking mouth, the cops and prosecutor lying

This system was designed for drawing lines

Black and white, cops and robbers, rich and poor, you can’t see it then you’re

blind

Being silent is complicit, violence is a sickness

Put yourself in someone else’s fucking shoes just for a minute