A Long Short Way

Lyrics

In no way shape of form do I mean to be disrespectful But truth gotta be told Peace to the ancestors! [Hook] We've come a long short way but we can't stop The fire never slowed down, it's still hot We won't be free till we know we're not (Say that again) I said we won't be free till we know we're not [Verse 1: K-Rino] I wasn't born back in slavery but I read about it The hurt and suffering was hard to wrap my head around it Are there any levels of present day regrеt I doubt it The ones who did it are upsеt cause we're upset about it They only tell a watered down version so I'ma run it Picture a fetus being sliced out of his momma's stomach They wanna hide the truth so they tune it down a notch But when they hung a black man a whole town would watch With ways of hate, free labor was punctuated Three hundred years straight and none of us got compensated Even the bad history can serve to motivate But the fools we are today, we let that go to waste [Hook] We've come a long short way but we can't stop The fire never slowed down, it's still hot We won't be free till we know we're not (Say that again) I said we won't be free till we know we're not [Verse 2: K-Rino] I wasn't born in the 60s but I read about it When I was young I believed what teachers said about it Some of us have knowledge of the truth but we're too scared to mouth it If you think this country's different now forget about it We would protest at a restaurant to sit in it Begging them to eat their food so they can spit in it And if a leader rose to prominence they hated them The FBI or CIA assassinated them You came in knowing that you had to have a life to give Crazy to think that people died for the right to live Deals broken, reparations that were never paid And integration was the worst mistake we've ever made [Hook] We've come a long short way but we can't stop The fire never slowed down, it's still hot We won't be free till we know we're not (Say that again) I said we won't be free till we know we're not [Verse 3: K-Rino] I'm not in the future yet but still I'm planning for it I'm in the present building up my understanding for it Working everyday and strategizing every night Planting seeds we hope to harvest there's a better life Respect from the world nobody mistreating us The children that we led today will soon be leading us Let's go to mental places that we've never been before Give blessing so down the line you can walk into yours Now the focus has to be shifted to education and health Generational curses reverse to generational wealth Will we ever start embracing a newer way Cause what happens tomorrow's based on what we do today [Hook] We've come a long short way but we can't stop The fire never slowed down, it's still hot We won't be free till we know we're not (Say that again) I said we won't be free till we know we're not