Drum

we scream to the gods talkin' 'bout set our babies free / singing remixed revolution songs raising thunder fists with bruised knuckles for cold and hungry unbathed babies locked in cages / again / babies stopped and frisked / shot down in streets / can you hear our drumming now / this riot / this rebellion / this heat / this stomp we bring so fire / better get yourself a gun / a book / some water / better pick you up a stick / a stone / better plant you some food / a flower / better remember your tongue / your land your people your fire / better fight in the face of your fears / who say we can't handle the smoke / who say we afraid to kill / there that drum / that drum / that drum that drum that drum / we conjure kin in prison / in ocean / house / sun / field / we move / we move / we move / we dance on graves / we chant in streets / we kill on sight / we swing off trees / we rise from dirt / we come from the dead / look around / we are everywhere / come to burn baby burn this land with the saying of all our names / we are a forever hashtag in an unending war / we push through pain like a needle through denim

go mama
go mama
go mama

where you see rhythm like us / where you hear groove this good / bodies so brick / skin so god / look up at the sky / see black angles with wings and swords ready to come at our call / can you hear / can you hear / all that drumming / boiling our blood / moving our feet

git it daddy
git it daddy

we so everywhere / so ready for freedom / so ready to fight for it / so ready to live / can you hear it / can you hear / that drum that drum that drum