Mmm mmm Yeah yeah
try to lock you down yeah yeah
Shooting the stars lock you away for nothing
Blood on the streets
Seems like they do what they feel
I've seen a silent man thrown in a riot van
hands behind his back strapped
tight keeps him quiet but he wasn't ever violent
officers scratching off their numbers
so they can't be identified
or ever get in trouble
Please understand the struggle
it's like no where there's the love
how's a kid supposed to feel
when he's always getting stopped
'cause the area he's from might gun
you down if you run
Shooting the stars lock you away for nothing
Blood on the streets
Seems like they do what they feel
Shooting the stars lock you away for nothing
Blood on the streets
Seems like they kill when they feel
And they can Try and lock away
an individual but they can never
lock and chain your spiritual
Your body may be trapped
but your minds never stopped and
I wing all that block for them years
all them months
It don't make sense when
I see rapists getting sentenced less
then men who rob
to send their kids to school
with food in their belly and a roof
over their head and sheets to keep
them warm in their bed
They shot an innocent man
they on the tube last year
so tell us how we're not supposed
to fear if I get stopped and searched
for the way that I look and then
charged with a crime that was never ever due
I've seen my mum crying tears
when they mention the year
behind bars for what the said
that I did but they could never convict
Yeah they can kill you and get away with it
Or take Oscar ran off a chain and
while two officers hold him down
shoot him in the back of the head
like no body ever hears a sound yeah
like no body ever hears a sound
And two officers hold him down
and shoot him in the back of the head
like no body's ever gonna hear a sound
No no shooting the stars lock
you away for nothing
Blood on the streets
Seems like they do what they feel
Shooting the stars lock you away for nothing
Blood on the streets
Seems like kill when they feel
Ooh ooh Ohh yeah yeah yeah down
Seems like they kill when they feel