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Behind these gray walls


“ Behind these Gray Walls “

      by Cane Go Hines

 

Behind these gray walls are my people of color

Only 2% of this captive nation is made of the other

I was told under his eyes we’re all brothers

I can bet u my life that the rest of the 98% were

just trying to make things better for their mothers

 

Behinds these grays walls rot and rot my people of color

They have the strength and choice to kill us all

But we all know the real killers make and enforce the law

It’s a fact my people have done some wrong

400 years of suffering and fighting was just too long

But behind these gray walls it still goes on

 

One million or more forgotten eyes

Trying to make a living chasing the devil’s pie

Do anything for it even steal and lie

Some even had to die, a nation of people getting drunk or high

Just trying to get by and maybe I can now stop my mom’s cry

It’s not your fault that the fridge is dry

 

For seventeen years she tried to get through to us

Sometimes my people feel like they are jewish

They should be ashamed and punished for how they continue to do us

In God I trust a nation filled by lust but a great change is a must

 

Behind these gray walls like the great wall of china

Still trying to finda way to combine us

Here you’re going to prison sign this

But with all energy and thrust these gray walls are soon to bust.

 

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