Lauryn Hill — Black Rage

BLACK RAGE is founded on two-thirds a person Rapings and beatings and suffering that worsens, Black human packages tied up in strings. BLACK RAGE can come from all these kinds of things Black Rage is founded on blatant denial Squeezing economics, subsistence survival, Deafening silence and social control. Black Rage is founded on wounds in the soul! When the dogs bite When the beatings When I'm feeling sad I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad! Black rage is founded: who fed us self-hatred Lies and abuse, while we waited and waited Spiritual treason, This grid and its cages Black rage was founded on these kinds of things Black rage is founded on draining and draining Threatening your freedom, To stop your complaining Poisoning your water, While they say it's raining Then call you mad for complaining, complaining Old time bureaucracy drugging the youth Black rage is founded on blocking the truth, Murder and crime, Compromise and distortion Sacrifice, sacrifice who makes this fortune? Greed, falsely called progress Such human contortion, Black rage is founded on these kinds of things So when the dog bites And the beatings When I’m feeling sad I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don’t fear so bad Free enterprise, is it myth or illusion? Forcing you back into purposed confusion Black human trafficking or blood transfusion? Black rage is founded on these kinds of things. Victims of violence both psyche and body Life out of context IS living unGodly Politics, politics Greed falsely called wealth Black rage is founded on denial of self! Black human packages tied and subsistence Having to justify your very existence Try if you must, but you can’t have my soul Black rage is made by unGodly control So when the dog bites And when the beatings And I’m feeling so sad I simply remember all these kinds of things And then I don’t fear so bad