Linger in My Footsteps
Yes em master no em master
Do u need me to wash your feet em master
Shall i bow down on my hands and knees em master
Every day language this is how I speak em master
Rugged Life on a plantation stripped from my integrity
Not able to run and consume my soul and mind as being free
Looked upon as a foreign specie or an alien that just vanquished
4 heads 6 arms and 9 legs
This is how my race is being looked upon
We're mules that are being used to do the labor work of the white man and his mistress
I is been secluded to this plantation
Working the fields sun up till sun Dawn
Torn apart from my family
Dealing with the propaganda blood sweat and tears of my people
My people that is that has created their economic prosperity
Only to seek and find that my skies are restricted
That my growth is an untouchable dream and that my future is inhibited
Oh lord please has mercy on me
I is got no money no education or liberal rights to this here horrific society
I is a vacant damned left in the wilderness to fight for my own
What Have we as a human race deserved to get mistreated like this
I'm starting to fall into the abyss
Losing hope losing dreams which my people often envision
Us one day growing wings like a dove and soaring off into the deep blue sky
With no limits and bondage to another human being
I just don’t get it sir, what makes them different from I
What makes them feel as though they may be superior than I
That they refer to me as a nigger besides the name that I was given at birth
The color of our eyes and skin may differ
But
We are all human beings and deserve to be treated equally.