We Don’t Expect

Lyrics

[Intro: Minister Robert Muhammad] Fifteen generations Born, raise, die Born, raise, die Born, raise, die Into a slave condition But yet we survive [Verse 1: K-Rino] Understand we don't expect you to care 'Cause usually when we get caught up it's a bet you was there Got our whole community lost in the depths of despair You even tricked some of us to think your methods were fair We walk around with house shoes on and nets on our hair People don't wanna get to know you and if they let you, it's rare Hard to reach us even with a positive message to share We be like, "Don't even speak on my name unless it's a prayer" And it's so hard, we even feelin' like your prayin' is fraud 'Cause if you hate us, ain't no tellin' what you sayin' to God We need to trust in those in our zone and stay on our own How many hours out of each day do we play on our phones We need attention so bad we be on Facebook cheesin' Tell everybody where we 'bout to go, what time we leavin' What we eatin', who we want to fight and who boyfriend cheatin' But in the streets it ain't no friends and police do the deletin' [Chorus: K-Rino] The blood and the lies and the tears and the pain The struggle in our eyes that the years couldn't tame Generations done died and still it remains And it ain't no surprise that you feel it's a game So don't blame your evil on me (Nah) I know your mad but we ain't blind no more You want us gone but we ain't gon' leave We ain't goin' nowhere, never [Verse 2: K-Rino] Understand we don't expect you to care I'm tellin' my people with no nuts to get you a pair We suffer blindness, everything wrong we fall in-line with It's more important things then who some ball player done signed with (C'mon) Lies told with no appearance of proof You call the truth hate, 'cause you hate hearin' the truth And Martin Luther King died when he truly spoke up They ain't kill him 'cause he had a dream, it's 'cause he woke up And if you thinkin' the systems with you, you got life twisted If I'm the one who put your car on flat then why would I fix it? The ghetto been blitz with a sick condition systemic And made ignorance spread faster than a damn epidemic Don't ever imitate or mimic nothin' them fools doin' Quit thinkin' that when they say 'we' that, that includes you See you won't be shocked at all by all the killin' and hatin' When you understand the nature of the person you facin' [Chorus: K-Rino] The blood and the lies and the tears and the pain The struggle in our eyes that the years couldn't tame Generations done died and still it remains And it ain't no surprise that you feel it's a game So don't blame your evil on me (Nah) I know your mad but we ain't blind no more You want us gone but we ain't gon' leave We ain't goin' nowhere, never [Verse 3: K-Rino] Understand we don't expect you to care Even as sharecroppers we never received our share They made promises to ex-slaves while shakin' their hands And jacked the Indians for two billion acres of land A truly free person we was never able to be Why would they ever want to pay you when the labor was free We learned after bein' tricked by a biblical halfwit Now I know that ain't Jesus, that's a picture or Brad Pitt Yeah, yeah, like I said, we don't expect you to care How could you when you deliberately infected the air You up in court innocent, but they don't pay it no mind How come your own lawyer tryna persuade you to sign Sympathy for dead blacks, y'all don't take it that far You cry harder when a damn dog get hit by a car They ain't gon' ever help you remove that horrible scar Because unlike us, them demons know who you really are [Outro: Minister Robert Muhammad] When you think about all that we survived Being put into hulls of ships and sailing across the Atlantic And then surviving that And being auctioned off, being breeded like animals Broke family broken up, and then spendin' our lives on a plantation Listen to me well Not for three days, not for three weeks Not for three hours, or three months, or three years But for 300 years