Excuse Me

Look what I've found

Come get down

It's that revolution sound

Call it the second emancipation, break these chains and let me out

It's not violence I'm on about

But riot boots still hit the ground

Lower the gun, put down the whip

Take a step back, hear me out

I am fanatic, employ guerrilla tactics

Open up this lyrical automatic and put holes in your rhetoric

It's archaic, kind of chaotic, almost barbaric

But yet you stand and you swear by it

And I've been readily, steadily waitin' for a chance to resist

The Devil is a liar

Topple the empire

Blood, sweat, tears and desire

I put my heart into this

Never forget I'm a soldier

I will not be conquered

I can't walk this road forever

And I can't forget the past

My soul is under pressure

And it's killing me

It's destroying me within

My need for emancipation

My soul is under pressure

And it's killing me

Liberty, pursuit of happiness

Equality and justice for all

Now you know you lying

You on that shotgun philosophy

Celebrate the tragedy

Build an effigy high to the heavens to remind me and blind me

Turn the whole world into my enemy

Control my destiny and drain all my energy

It's insane to me

Got the whole nation sedated and medicated

A testimony to the violence

Yet you still give me that ghetto education

Basically primin' me to feed me to the prison industry

I see all of you cowards

The greed, the need to hold control over me

Break these chains, end the power

I'd rather you give back what you stole from me

I can't walk this road forever

And I can't forget the past

My soul is under pressure

And it's killing me

It's destroying me within

My need for emancipation

My soul is under pressure

And it's killing me

Excuse me, Mr. Officer

Come out of me sector

No need to stress ya

No need for vex ya

Yo, excuse me Your Honor, fuck the drama

No apologies, I save that for my mama

Take my name off of the docket

Drop all these charges

All it took was a spark, all it took was a catalyst

Martin said it best

I live a life with no violence

So I speak up, no longer silent

I begin to see

My third eye is openin'

And my resolve is strengthening

I yearn to be free

I can't walk this road forever

And I can't forget the past

My soul is under pressure

And it's killing me

It's destroying me within

My need for emancipation

My soul is under pressure

And it's killing me

Excuse me, Mr. Officer

No need for war

Tryin' to drain my energy, but you can't keep me down

I can't walk this road forever

And I can't forget the past

My soul is under pressure

But it won't kill me