Bullets-19 - Saigon

Ain’t no way that I would let a viral threat make me forget

That in which I suspect is the reason that I can check

All media outlets, see the globe in a panic

I wonder how we under but never go over standing

A day before Corona hit, I read an article that read

200 shootings in Chicago predicted for tomorrow

But what I didn’t see was politicians all over the screen

Talking 'bout a vaccine, stopping kids from getting hit with them hollow

But are bodies in Baltimore less important 'cause they poor?

They don’t call for an uproar?

It’s not an emergency when your board could count more

People that die from guns without going off to war

If we added up the numbers from ghettos across America

There’s more deaths than the virus, and where is all the hysteria?

Niggas is social distancing, we playing our part

But when it’s over, I hope my kids can go play in the park

You know why?

You know why?

Tell 'em

Our children shouldn’t have to run from bullets

Our children shouldn’t have to run from bullets

They’ve seen too many mamas cry on the south side

So many nanas lose their grandsons to handguns

I know we get a forced pride from saying «We outside»

But from the speed of a bullet, homie, you can’t run

Just imagine it

We don’t get a grip on the establishment

Your kid will never get to be a graduate

Someone put a gun to your son' head and splattered it

You up in the hospital asking doctors «How bad is it?!»

That was the incentive of using this poetry as power

It’s preventive, shout me out in your mentions

I ain’t try’na get deep I just got with other dimensions

Music is the cure, mind’s pure is my intention

These rappers use it as a damn gimmick

Us killing each other is worse than the pandemic

Some hurt you just can’t mimic

My condolences go to everybody that lost one

So why you loading that gun listening to my song, son?

Our children shouldn’t have to run from bullets

Our children shouldn’t have to run from bullets

We gotta change