Ain’t nobody got time for you.
Ain’t nobody got time to be sitting in a courtroom with a class action lawsuit.
Ain’t nobody got time to question why Zimmerman is still free
Despite the fact a girl was arrested on site for “flour-bombing” a celebrity.
You see, ain’t nobody got time for civil rights.
Ain’t nobody got time to look at discrimination and shed sensible insight.
Martin Luther King Jr. had time for a dream so inspirational it transformed the Constitution.
Thurgood Marshall had time to make Brown v. Board of Education start a revolution.
Gandhi had time to question the morality of the law
But we can’t make time to correct our government’s greatest flaw?
We find time for Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
Yet we don’t have time for change because it lacks a catchy hook.
We have the audacity to complain about reform and equality
But we refuse to step up or speak out against hypocrisy.
I’m confused by how this apathy became a plague
So rooted in society thinking about alteration gives us a headache.
Our fists should be raised against the tyranny of prejudiced insecurity.
Against the conversations that cease when people walk by because of closed-minded impurity.
Against the age old discrimination that suffocates us like a noose.
Against the prejudiced laws that foster religious abuse.
Against the snide remarks that leave people’s lips
And the hateful words that slash our skin like cowhide whips
Leaving scars that leak blood on the carpet this issue has been swept under
Our fists should be raised in unity against the bigotry that has split this country asunder.
But we’re too caught up in time to take a step back
And realize how far our blindness has pushed us off track.
It’s time to open our eyes and claim our liberty
Because we don’t deserve our rights if we won’t fight to be free.
We are the antithesis to a generation of undeserved entitlements,
Living so comfortably we sit idly in our own excrement
Searching in vain for a sense of fulfillment
When all we have to do is stand up and work for it.
I’m sick and tired of seeing such lackadaisical attitudes
From teens too self-absorbed to reconsider their latent views.
Our vision is clouded but our futures couldn’t be any clearer
The only way to change the world is to start by looking in the mirror.