Breweth - Continuum (feat. Karyn Ann) Lyrics

I'm sick of dressing in the skin of the aggressor
Lily-white mister missing emotional release
His bullets are kissing innocents in the streets
In our schools
In our theaters
And you suited-up news fools and bottom-feeders, listen
Fear ain't a leader
I hear fear is your good lead, though
I should take a moment to breathe or at least try to sleep
But words are overflowing, overcoming, and hovering over me

(Hovering over me)

And I'm sick of dressing in the skin of the aggressor
Lily-white male repressed mirroring the oppressor
I guess, sir, I didn't tailor my complexion

(Ay-yah! Ay-yah!)

This pale flesh, I should mention, comes from a woman and a man happening to meet
And that's how you get a Me
And if a Me is an I, well, then who am I to you?
Well, to you I'm a You
And I can't quit myself from hurting over what strangers do
And I can't quit feeling so connected to you
Yes, you, the one
The one in front of the gun lives forever

Ooooh
You can't kill my soul, it lives on
You can't kill my soul, when my body is gone
You can't kill my soul, it lives on
Oh, the one in front of the gun lives forever

Did you hear the rainfall this morning?
How it washed the rooftop off while you were mourning
And the wind winding up while we're in hiding
Um
Um, what's left to say on the other day, just another?
And why are we fighting my brother, my ex, my mother?
My dead father, new friends, old friends, why do we bother?
We're slaughtering each other, the chatter of an automatic is applauding
And the audience is audibly ornery and it oughta be
The enemy's awnry cause he's gotta be
For any of this to make sense
(Make sense)
His twenty-two caliber two cents
(Two cents)
His twenty-two caliber two cents
(Two cents)

Why we fighting
Oh, my brother?
Why we fighting
My brother and my father?
New friends, oh, and old friends, why do we bother?

Was he evicted for no cause or had his rent raised?
Was he a foster kid for seemingly no cause?
How was he raised?
Cause's meaning is maybe lost on effect
One parent or two parents
Or apparently he loved his god with all his might
Or his mind wasn't right
Asking ourselves why is a dead end
But maybe not yet
From Sandy to Boston to Lafayette
I'm lost on demanding damning lines
Aurora to Nickel Mines to Thurston to Santana
That man is mercilessly rat-tatta-tat-tatta
To Redlake to Orlando
Why is it always a man, though?
(Ayee-yeah)
From Columbine to Isla Vista to Westside
Eyes wide shut to our boys growing up
(Ayee-yeah)
Never really growing up
To Chattanooga to Virginia Tech
I ain't ever forget
I ain't ever forget
I ain't ever forget
I ain't ever forget
I ain't ever forget
I ain't ever forget

Why we fighting my brother?
Why we fighting my mother, my father?
Oh, new friends
Oh, and old friends
Oh, why do we bother?

(His twenty-two caliber two cents)

You can't kill my soul
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
It lives on
You can't kill my soul
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
When my body is gone
You can't kill my soul
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
I live on
Yeah, me, the one in front of the gun lives forever
(Forever)
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
Oh, lives forever
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
Oh, lives forever
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
(Ooooh-aaaaah)
Oh, lives forever