List of Demands (Reparations)

I want my money back

I'm down here drowning in your fat

You got me on my knees praying for everything you lack

I ain't afraid of you

I'm just a victim of your fear

You cower in your tower praying that I'll disappear

I got another plan

One that requires me to stand

On the stage or in the street, don't need no microphone or beat

And when you hear this song

If you ain't dead then sing along

Bang and strum to these here drums til you get where you belong

I got a list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

You wanna be somebody?

See somebody?

Try and free somebody?

I got a list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

Hand to mouth

I wrote a song for you today while I was sitting in my room

I jumped up on my bed today and played it on a broom

I didn't think that it would be a song that you would hear

But when I played it in my head, I made you reappear

I wrote a video for it and I acted out each part

Then I took your picture out and taped it to my heart

I've taped you to my heart dear girl, I've taped you to my heart

And if you pull away from me you'll tear my life apart

I got a list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

You wanna be somebody?

See somebody?

Try and free somebody?

I got a list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

Call the police

I'm strapped to the teeth

And liable to disregard your every belief

Call on the law

I'm fixin' to draw

A line between what is and seems and call up a brawl

Call 'em up now

'Cause I'm about to go pow

I'm standing on the threshold of the ups and the downs

Call up the troops

'Cause I'm about to bust loose

Protect ya neck, 'cause, son, I'm breaking out of my noose

I got a list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

You wanna be somebody?

See somebody?

Try and free somebody?

I gotta list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

Hand to mouth

I got a list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

We're living hand to mouth

You wanna be somebody?

See somebody?

Try and free somebody?

I gotta list of demands

Written on the palm of my hands

I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand

Hand to mouth

Hand to mouth

Hand to mouth