No Ways Tired - Jackie Hill Perry, Joseph Solomon, Jackie Hill-Perry

She said she was tired

Tired of mailing her sons away

Tired of guns summoning death

Telling the press, too frustrated to yell and it’s messing with her

I remember when they told me I wasn’t the homie

I was a segment

She said it with tears with her head in my chest and

I felt the burden, I felt it burn up, I saw the fire

I saw the furnace, who turned it higher?

I heard and turned and grabbed some dirt

She said that my son’s inside it

It’s hard to pray and say the name of what 81 invited but who will listen?

This prison system is lynching my babies

His bail is higher than what put him inside and it’s crazy

Is he a colleague from Riker’s Island with violence

Or maybe he gotta die to be safe

And I’m still alive, let us pray

Life is getting harder, God I need thee

Gotta walk on water where you are, oh God I need thee

God I’m losing focus, hold me close because I need thee

Never let me go, oh don’t I know it, God I need thee

He said he was woke

He tired of sleeping, he tired of weeping for bodies

Nobody try believing the body is blind, I see it

He said it with red in his eye

The color that smothered his brother under that sheet

He mumbles something I seen

The other day when I was walking with him

Through the park with lots of children, dogs of all civilians

No guards to stop and frisk or draw revolvers, all the privilege

We all so different, walks beside a Christian

Can’t decide the difference, I provide a bridge

He frowns and says he wants to hate 'em

Put a noose around his neck and text him «how's it hanging?»

Treat him like his skin’s the curse of Ham, he knows it’s Satan

When the press becomes oppressive, it’s us trading places

So he bids him grace and praises

I can’t get tired

I can’t get tired

Life is getting harder, God I need thee

Gotta walk on water where you are, oh God I need thee

God I’m losing focus, hold me close because I need thee

Never let me go, oh don’t I know it, God I need thee

She said she was tired