A Tribe Called Red How I Feel song lyrics

Well, I could never imagine the pain in the mother's hearts

When life takes a turn for the worse

And creates another canvas that will never be completed

I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated

My energy's depleted but I want to stand and fight

Swinging with the spirits that have traveled back and through the light

I feel the tears and depression

Fears and aggression

Woven in society, from years of oppression

The violence is normalized, silence is horrifying

The truth is denied and the fact is that more are dying

You don't have to tell how you feel

Cause I can hear it in the cries

And it's hard to listen- but listen

Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships

So the hearts conditioned to condition the air when the air that conditions keep cool

But the more tears sometimes clear the vision [?]

Now what I see been a long time coming

The tribe running, rocking, reaching new peaks

So that them young'uns can finally summit

Climbing high above and then fly from it, up to the skies

Over standing the corruption and the deconstructing the lies

I've seen this country decline

Try to keep discussions confined

Hide the underside, over extract, and try to undermine

Damn, but I still believe in the truth whether as an MC in the booth or a PhD in a suit

Yo, when we yelling protest [?] feeling this peaceful

We profess, we pro-testify the will of the people, tell them what they must know

Turn it up loud, when we bust flows, not in hushed tones, speaking up, let the trust grow

Now, you ain't gotta tell me how you feel

Cause I can see it in your eyes

You don't gotta tell me that the pain is real

Cause I can hear it in your cry

Well, it's the type of heartbreak that takes more than tears and time to stitch up

And heal wounds and heal the scars that leave behind

A separation from the fam, segregation on the land

It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands

It's all divide and conquer, colonize the slaughter

Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers

Now we see the daughters that are disappearing quickly

See it through cracks while ignoring all the history

Government's been scooping babies way before the 60's

When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery

So now you see the mystery is really not too complicated

Justice is unequally distributed, my observation

Money to be made while the kids are steady [?]

Splitting up a family has now become an occupation

And it's been part of the Occupation

Since residential schools enforced starvation

It's a nation with racism

Here since the start of it

Hard to let go cause it's carved in the heart of it

Relation to the land and our rise, we're a part of it

Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it

And you don't have to tell me how you feel

Cause I can see it in your eyes

And they don't have to prove to me that pain is real

Cause I can hear it in their cries