Alive

Okay, police pull up, hop out, let off shots before announcing
They yell out freeze like they cant see he's leaking like a fountain
It's one knee in his back, he can not breathe, sound like he drownin
Ain't no body camera footage, they gone say that's how they found him
And the coroner gone sign off. DA office sign off.
News anchor does sign off. And the officer get time off.
It's a thin blue line and way too many time that line crossed.
It's way too many lives lost (its way too many lives lost)
Dont say that too loud, they might show up to your house.
They might pull up where you work at, they might snatch you out the crowd.
They gone ask you where you stay, they gone see what you about.
They dont like the shit you say, they gone make you turn it down.
"That's a fine. That's some time. That's a violation!"
"Put your hands in the sky! Lay down! Face the pavement!"
"You've got the right to be silent." - They pray you take it.
'Cause if you fight for your right that's a fight for your life. Run!

What you wanna be?
Get down now
What you wanna be?
I said lay down on the ground
What you wanna be?
Keep your hands high
What you wanna be?
I just wanna be alive.

(Gunshot)(Transition)

As a youth, pops n his mom split
About the same time he started with the nonsense
13 smoking dreams with the convicts
Different concepts, he went beyond left
Had to learn, those are movable objects
Those are people who wanna see u on mom's steps, never going far from home for your conquest
So he enlisted in something where he can progress
2 tours... overseas in the services
Came home wit medals, thankfully none was purple and
He tried to do the 9 to 5, on purpose
Nothing wrong wit that hustle but it was hurting him
The need for adrenaline. Older, not ignorant.
Tryin to feed his babies...2 of the worlds innocent.
Graduate the academy, all authentic
Not much of a salary y'all God giveth
A badge a standard issue model baretta
And the power....now they gotta do what he tell em
Well aware of his peers, how they shoot the civilian
At his daughters school, just had a rally for victims
Did like his dad did, or maybe he didn't
Made his way to captain right after lieutenant
Figure he could chill start his wife a lil business and
As time ticks, everybody grips on the pendulum
Off duty late one evening getting a fill up
Had to go inside, that was the only hiccup
Young kid, seen him n instantly put the stick up
What was a stick up, now he'll never fix up
1 thru his chest and another 1 in the abdomen...
Thinking bout his kids, and all that shouldn't be happening
His breath got slower, colder...than Alaska n the
Last thing he sighed...I just wanna be alive.