Still Standing

Could you imagine, being taken as a kid? Stolen from your mother by the hands of a pig Being placed in a home where no love is ever shown In your heart you no longer wanna live Used to dream big now your worlds come crumbling down Ain't no mother, ain't no father, or no family around Just to see a black faces with tears in their eyes Who are being fed lies that their mothers all died Just imagine, in a place you can't escape And you just seen a boy who slept across you get raped Yeah, that's harsh and surreal but believe me this is real You will never understand the pain that my people now feel You just hate and criticize, lying to the truth "It's in the past", is your only excuse See, you don't wanna believe that my people still grieve In our heart there's a pain that ain't ever gonna leave We were taken and they said it's for the best As they ripped that black baby from a screaming mothers chest Let her deal with the stress, she's down and depressed As she watched all the rest get beat up in the press Such a shame that our people still see this now Kids are taken by the system, how Are we supposed to come and make it thorough the weather Forget about our past so we can see the future's better See, this makes me sick, January 26 Is the day you have your barbies and you all get pissed But let me tell you how it is for my people Is the day that we survived all evil and still standing strong Standing, standing (I said we still standing strong) We still stand strong We still stand (And we still standing strong) Standing, standing (I said we still standing strong) We still stand strong We still stand We fight for our people, fight to be heard Fight for our right to express these words No recognition for the oldest culture living on earth And said they'd rather see a drunk on the curb But no, we still push through Like really, what they teaching in school They made us seem like we were savages, no morals or rules But we had villages and doctors and man made tools Without our help you woulda looked like fools You must have no idea Phillip coulda died by the spear for Tryna take away a culture that was already here You raped our women, took our children, all the feelings we fear Just know the pain we feel is all still here And don't expect it to leave Until you see our need to grieve For the ones that fell before us so the next could breathe For our people who still died because of your disease It's not as easy as your eyes to see We've gotta be that change Fight to see this culture remain Uncle Charlie, Uncle Chica, fall for all of that pain You see our classrooms are empty, our jails are full My cousin copped ten years while yours graduated school It's a pity, I see it in my city They wonder why our generations walk around shitty Full of unhealed wounds, trauma that was passed with a spoon They fed us lies and told us shoot for the moon But we still stand strong Standing, standing (I said we still standing strong) We still stand strong We still stand (And we still standing strong) Standing, standing (I said we still standing strong) We still stand strong We still stand (We still standing strong) We still standing We still standing (I said we still standing strong) Still standing strong (We still standing strong) I said we, we still standing We still standing strong