Shades of Blue-Vic Mensa

[00:39.52]Color of morning pee coming out of the sink [00:41.97]It's 2016 who would think [00:44.14]Kids in america don't have clean water to drink [00:47.00]Like they cut the ebt took 'em off of the link [00:49.46]I read a story about a woman with her daughter in flint [00:51.99]She got lead poisoning from showers in the morning [00:54.32]When the governor switched out the pipes to bring the water in [00:57.22]To the city river cause he said they can't afford to get clean water [01:00.23]So now the poor people get the shorter end [01:02.47]Of the stick ain't that some bullshit [01:04.64]Shorty thirsty he just bought his fourth fifth [01:06.92]It's lead in the water gun he dying from a full clip [01:09.66]Now you've got toddlers drinking toxic waste [01:12.12]While the people responsible still ain't caught no case [01:14.57]I don't get it man I just ain't wit it man [01:16.67]They got damn daniel distracting you on instagram [01:19.64]Back again with the all-white media coverage [01:21.96]They do it over and over like remedial subjects [01:24.58]The people with the least always gotta pay the most [01:26.94]We the first to go when they deleting them budgets [01:29.60]Can a nigga get his basic human right [01:31.54]Is that too much to ask should I say it more polite [01:34.45]And everybody broke so we in the same boat [01:36.89]But would they let that shit sink if we was whit [01:38.88]It got me shades of blue [01:39.94]Rain or *******ne it's all blue it's all blue [01:44.84]Ain't no sun it's all blue it's all blue [01:50.00]Purple haze in a daze it's all blue it's all blue [01:54.89]Change gon' come it's all you it's all on you [02:00.05]It's all blue all blue [02:04.50]It's all blue all blue [02:10.82]The skies stay gray around my way around my way [02:19.60]Waking up to the morning sun in detroit [02:22.49]I'll be with the people when they come for the boy [02:24.96]Everybody tryna be american idols [02:27.04]My x-factor is I'm the only one with the voice [02:29.82]It's bigger than us these kids listen to us [02:32.29]That's why I give 'em that truth cause they don't get it enough [02:34.67]We making niggas and hoes out our women too muc [02:37.24]We can't trust ourselves and we don't know who to trust [02:39.71]It ain't enough for police to wear body cams [02:42.20]Cause niggas still gettin' tazed and body slamme [02:44.69]And cigarettes'll kill you on their own [02:46.62]But they'll kill you for a cigarette I honor eric garner fam' [02:49.72]I'm a part of him he a part of me [02:52.21]I'm a prodigy in these prada jeans [02:54.80]I'm tryna' make my partners a part of the election [02:57.28]So you ain't gotta presidential pardon me [02:59.46]And pardon me but why is it that the darker must suffer [03:02.39]How do we protect the culture from the vultures [03:05.08]There's a cold war every summer in the chi [03:07.32]It's a snowball effect from the cold war in russia [03:09.86]But vladimir putin ain't in the hood recruitin' [03:12.64]And derrick rose ain't the only one out here shootin' [03:15.19]They set fire to their own squad cars [03:17.28]And a nigga on the news gon' blame it on the lootin [03:20.16]Now here I am talking 'bout a revolution [03:22.67]And I can't even spare a dollar to the movement [03:24.86]But I'm in the strip club spending dollars on that movement [03:27.88]I guess we all got room for improvement [03:30.08]Rain or *******ne it's all blue it's all blue [03:35.09]Ain't no sun it's all blue it's all blue [03:40.23]Purple haze in a daze it's all blue it's all blue [03:45.12]Change gon' come it's all you it's all on you