You’re Cent$itive

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If you’re sensitive
and you know it
close your ears.
If you’re sensitive
and you know it
close your ears.
If you’re sensitive
and you know it
cause your face
will fo’ sho’
show it
If you’re sensitive
and you know it
close
your
ears.

Close
closer to me
voy a chismear
smear the truth
all over your face
como mierda.
Comen mierda
los policiticos
los Pop-artistas
los pinche ricos
rubbing their dollar bills
in our faces
sweaty balls, t-bagging our pride
Brown, white, male
Female glitz and glam.
We eat it up- fetishists
we like to have shit fed
to us.
Twisted B-D-S-M
Emphasis on the D
DISGRACE


Meanwhile we’re off!!!
Every Monday off
to the fucken races.
The rat game
Que quieres pinche rata!
Nada guey
Solo trato de sobrevivir
De eso se trata.

I dig my balled up fists
deep in my pockets
only come up
with last year’s dreams
cant’ even afford lint balls.
So what’s the point then?
Time to jump off
this hamster wheel.
Can’t continue to wheel em
nor deal em anymore
with the same prevention messages
the darker they are the harder they fall.
More fall
to this disease
poverty pockets spilling
over with needs
shelter, education,
love, meds.
For their diabetes, ADD
And now HIV.
Give those folks a hug!
You see those tracks
they’ve been laid for a while
now, we’ve known for a while
now that poverty is the root
of many ills.
Poverty is a disease
That can’t be cured,
You say?
Whoa!
At ease
Paht na’
Now see them here
bootstraps
you’ve been telling me
forever to pull me
Myself up from them.
Up, up and out of poverty.
I pull hard, harder
from under me!
The darker they are
The harder they fall.


In the dark about
Prevention
resources.
In the dark
cause the lights
were cut off.
All of the lights
All of the lights
We’re sitting in the dark
Here baby- cause they cut off
All of the lights.
In the dark
Like Highland Park, Michigan
can’t see them pull
another one over us
them thieves
those job makers
promised
they were Gonna make it rain
on our asses.

The debt ceiling is falling
The debt ceiling is falling
Jobs are dropping
1 of out 5 men
out of a job man
that’s 8% unemployment rate man
unless you’re a black man
you’re dealing with 16% man.
16 must be the number
outta work
outta school
out on bail
no BAIL OUT
outta luck.
1 in 16 black men
diagnosed with HIV at some point.
Oh what’s the point?!
Jobs take a dip
HIV/AIDS hitting another
tip of the community
Young Black Men
I stand here angry
fists in my pocket
pointing at the ground.
So pissed off I taste metal.
Wish I could take it out
On metal
a black Maybach?
Maybe one day
will also do it for a good cause
Unleashing anger
doing it for a good cause
Maybe one day.
For now we wait
Will go down?
Sit down and wait
Add your name to the list
Of those that wait
Are waiting for
Rent money
A job
Housing
Meds
Financial aid
Aid.
Where’s my check?
Wish I could
write off the pain
of getting screwed another day.

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