They Know Why - Dizzy Wright

How you see us scream but you ain’t hear us?

I see the way you act when you get near us

I’m realizing why the police fear us

They know why, they know fucking why, aye

And if you don’t obey then they’ll kill ya

Martial law is coming, get familiar

Donald Trump ain’t no different from Hitler, aye

They know why, they know fucking why, aye

Hours slinging CDs like a mountain (and they got me)

And when I X out Martin I be Malcolm

I be feeling violent when I see it

When I see how my people get treated

Responded with this anger, it’s a set up

Families of the fallen, keep your head up

I seen this kid crying cause his father die

All these losers in these badges being qualified

Ain’t you supposed to serve and protect me?

Do the color of my skin make you neglect me?

Do I gotta die to make your heart feel heavy?

Aye

Martial law is coming, is you ready?

Riding with my daughter and my son with me, real change

I’mma have Snoop and Game come with me

This the same country that enslaved us

Black lives matter, scattered cause this is how you made us

How you see us scream but you ain’t hear us?

I see the way you act when you get near us

I’m realizing why the police fear us

They know why, they know fucking why, aye

And if you don’t obey then they’ll kill ya

Martial law is coming, get familiar

Donald Trump ain’t no different from Hitler, aye

They know why, they know fucking why, aye

I needed answers and I never got 'em

Asking for his license then he shot him

Luckily technology done caught 'em

Sad part is he still get paid tomorrow

Paid suspension after he done took a life

Fuck the man that think that shit good advice

There some things you shouldn’t do and shouldn’t like

Y’all keep stabbing a culture with a butcher knife, aye

Did it right, what the fuck you think we angry for?

I said what Jesse Williams like I’m Samuel

My vision hella clear, we want a better year

We gotta ask for freedom like we never here

So my people wanna riot for the payback

Even though we know that won’t bring MLK back

Okay okay, I feel like I done said enough

You dealing with a rebel, we gon' step it up

How you see us scream but you ain’t hear us?

I see the way you act when you get near us

I’m realizing why the police fear us

They know why, they know fucking why, aye

And if you don’t obey then they’ll kill ya

Martial law is coming, get familiar

Donald Trump ain’t no different from Hitler, aye

They know why, they know fucking why, aye