How I Feel (feat. Leonard Sumner, Shad & Northern Voice)

Well, I could never imagine the pain that the mother saw

When life takes a turn for the worst and creators all

Becomes another canvas that will never be completed

I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated

My energy's depleted, but I wanna stand and fight

Swingin' with the spirits that have traveled back into the light

I feel the tears and depression, fears and agression

Woven in society from years of oppression

The violence is normalized, silence is horrifying

Truth is denied and the fact is that more are dying

You don't have to tell me how you feel

'Cause I can hear it in their cries

And it's hard to listen, but listen 'cause it's much harder livin' it

Than listenin' to hardships, to the heart's condition and condition the air

When the air that conditions keep it cool, but the more tears

Sometimes the clearer the vision

Now what I see been a long time comin', try runnin'

Rockin', reachin' new peaks so them youngin's can finally summit

Climbin' high above and then flyin' from it, up to the skies

And overstandin' the corruption and deconstructin' the lies

I've seen this country decline, try to keep discussions confined

Hide the underside, over-extract and try to undermine

Damn, but I still believe in the truth

Whether it's an MC in a booth or a PhD in a suit

Yo, when we yellin' protest tell 'em the feelin' is peaceful

We profess, we pro-testify to the will of the people

Tell 'em what they must know, turn it up loud when we bust flows

Not in hushed tones, speakin' up, let the trust grow

Now you don' gotta tell me how you feel

'Cause I can see it in your eyes

You don't gotta tell me the pain is real

'Cause I can hear it in your cry

Well, it's the type of heartbreak that takes more than tears and time to

Stitch up any wounds and heal the scars that leave behind

The separation from the fans, segregation on the land

It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands

It's all divide and conquer, colonize and slaughter

Stabbin' at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers

Now we see your daughters that are disappearing quickly

Say it's through the cracks while ignoring all the history

Government's been scoopin' babies way before the '60s

When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery

So now you see the mystery is really not too complicated

Justice is unequally distributed, my observation

Money could be made while the kids are steadily oscillating

Splittin' up a family has now become an occupation

And it's been part of the occupation since residential schools

Enforce starvation, it's the nation with racism, here since the start of it

Hard to let go 'cause it's carved in the heart of it

Relation to the land and a rise, we're a part of it

Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it

And you don't have to tell me how you feel

'Cause I can see it in your eyes

And they don't have to prove to me that the pain is real

'Cause I can hear it in their cries