Don't Shoot - Shea Diamond

Not your business but I’ve seen some shit

Got snatched up by my mom when I was six

I can still smell the smoke as the bullet missed

That’s a lot for a kid

Had enough when I was fourteen

I ran away so I can force down my dreams

But I didn’t have the knowledge

The streets was too much

Mama just taught me I wasn’t enough

You’re safe so you live it up

Hard days, you’ve never seen them love

I’m not saying I’m the only one

But damn some days don’t it feel like it

Hands up, please don’t shoot

They say that you’ll love it if your mouth stay mute

They say they don’t see color but the blood stain show the proof

Hands up, please don’t shoot

We’ll living in a world but it can’t take truth

They say they don’t see color but the blood stain show the proof

Lock me up when I was nineteen

There goes my twenties and there goes my dreams

Put me on the yard and said sacrifice the queen

That’s a lot for a teen

Cried so much when I was released

Kissed the grass under my feet

Modern slavery tried to get the best of me

That’s a lot for anybody

You’re safe so you live it up

Hard days, you’ve never seen them love

I’m not saying I’m the only one

But damn some days don’t it feel like it

Hands up, please don’t shoot

They say that you’ll love it if your mouth stay mute

They say they don’t see color but the blood stain show the proof

Hands up, please don’t shoot

We’ll living in a world but it can’t take truth

They say they don’t see color but the blood stain show the proof

Now I’m sitting in my fourties

What I need I can afford it

Butterflies on the red carpet

That’s a whole lot for me

That’s a whole lot for me