Verse 1: Alone to suffer in the darkness where they kept us/ follow the deep signs that our ancestors left us/ figured it out from the pain in my own struggles/ same pain help me connect them pieces to the puzzles/ now its all real so I'm seeing them signs well/ knowing we in deeper like Carlito and Klienfeld/ time tells it all you can miss it while it passes/ what I'm doing gon help my people rise from the ashes/ that's why truth spoken to those who ever following/ let em know our people were kidnapped like Solomon/ discovered things they secretly tried to keep hidden/ facing the facts shows where many blacks were forbidden/ now see back in the days left us hanging from our neck/ now its profits through the prison industrial complex/ put an end to this nonsense this the final call the time coming for revolution/ the only solution/

Hook: Curtains close will I hear the applause/ for people who really fought and took a slug for the cause/ who ready to fight and stand up for what they believe/ the time is now so I'm calling all emcees/ lets come together and I'm sure all will agree/ we tired of being oppressed by the powers that be/ we still keeping it real with you so you can see/ that this was all set up so we can never be free

Verse 2: I'm not alright when I'm still receiving calls/ from innocent inmates sitting behind prison walls/ insane laws got us serving the maximum sentence/ suffer in the real world right after its finished/ these rappers talk nonsense, but yall love to hear them flow/ but won't listen when I talk about this New Jim Crow/ you worried about your jewelry and jordans staying fresh/ KKK screaming white power and making threats/ protest and they send tanks and swats/ leaving our bodies in the streets for hours after the shots/ sit and just watch then go online posting hashtags/ but in the end its not us getting the last laugh/ someone asked how do we come up with the answers/ I reply revolutionary like the black panthers/ gotta realize it now we in serious trouble/ this for people going through the black liberation struggle

Hook: Curtains close will I hear the applause/ for people who really fought and took a slug for the cause/ who ready to fight and stand up for what they believe/ the time is now so I'm calling all emcees/ lets come together and I'm sure all will agree/ we tired of being oppressed by the powers that be/ we still keeping it real with you so you can see/ that this was all set up so we can never be free

Verse 3: Breaking the shackles cause my people still at war/ I'm fighting for our freedom like Assata Shakur/ but still we ignore problems right in front of our eyes/ the hate between races how they rule and divide/ then when divided the population gets so weak/ so that means anything done by the elite/ history repeats they continue hiding the proof/ look how the media tried to justify Dylan Roof/ police didn't shoot said he was mentally ill/ they didn't give a damn about the nine people he killed/ up in the church shows how its getting much worse/ to see my people tear each other down what really hurts/ under this curse trana escape the tyranny/ the ignorance spreads quickly so yall not hearing me/ these weak leaders selling you lost hope and dreams/ when we just want freedom and justice by any means

Hook: Curtains close will I hear the applause/ for people who really fought and took a slug for the cause/ who ready to fight and stand up for what they believe/ the time is now so I'm calling all emcees/ lets come together and I'm sure all will agree/ we tired of being oppressed by the powers that be/ we still keeping it real with you so you can see/ that this was all set up so we can never be free