T Halcyon - Power in the Wrong Hands Lyrics

You can't think
You can't see
You can't dream
You can't be
Who you have the right to be
I cannot believe it
You can't
Have feelings
Desires
Beliefs or attitudes
That are different from those
Who try to control you
So you
You just
Try to say the same as them and listen to all of the things that they tell you
Try to be the one who serves their master well or you will be punished all the way to hell
Try to be the one who plays the game fair while they break all of the rules and declare
Power
Is something you once had
Power
Time to give it back
Time to give it back
If I died before I gave birth to you I would have saved the world
You said it with hatred and disgust
Yeah I think I get it by now I'm a curse
I am nothing
I'm a failure
I am ugly
I'm a loner
And to you I'll always be this way
Guilty by birth
Ugly from skin
Who knew being the darkest girl would be a crime that sentences me to a life in prison
A crime that doesn't fit the punishment
But the feelings fit the facts
I put shame to the family for reasons that have more to do with you than to do with me
Even little girls with skin like night
Found freedoms I could never fight
You called me a black slave chained in shame
Rigged a system where you staked your claim
A family tree so deeply stained
By generational hate ingrained
You wielded worlds of cruel oppression
Fostering pain in your own reflection
A colorism that broke me through
Left me battered black and blue
Black and blue through and through
Did your family do the same to you
I don't know about you but I know about me
If I ever have a kid
It won't be anything
Like this like this like this like this
I'll grit my teeth and I'll try
Not to ever mistreat the heart of my child
What's new
What's new
Did you finally discover
That I might be a good person
Haha
Haha
Haha
Haha
Like that would ever happen
Like that would ever happen
One day you are here
The next day you are gone
And I will never know if life will be consistent
But let me tell you something
One of us has changed
Let me bring you the new me
The one who won't take the blame
In a world where you are always right how wrong can I be
How wrong can it be to be me
How guilty
How guilty
Guilty until proven otherwise
Guilty until proven otherwise
My truth gets buried under all your lies
You can't believe me
You can't believe it
You can't think
You can't see
You can't dream
You can't be
Who you have the right to be
You would not believe it
Stripped of reason that no one understands
Injustice spreads across these barren lands
All sense of fairness finally disbands
Leaving nothing but
Power in the wrong hands