Save Me (Why Must I Suffer) Lyrics

Thinking bout where to start

Shout out to ancestors like

John Henrik Clarke

For making his mark

And leaving me knowledge

That's making me smart

I wasn't dyslexic

But American schools

Ain't giving me lessons

I need in my soul

Needed to learn

Needed to grow

Need to discern

All of the history books

Leaving us out

Leaving our people in doubt

That we ever did shit

Always weeding us out

Study to see what it's bout

They running a few scams

Giving niggas some food stamps

Put guns in a few hands

That's making ya crew blam

Put mummies in museums

Nigga got damn

These writings are sacred

From kings to their sons

And I thought about mine

From the top of the bunk

I learned that it takes time

To learn how to raise to mine

With all of these hate crimes

They didn't expect for me

To inspect it

To see that we're black kings

Like Pepi the Second

To spit and direct a collective

They always just mess up the message

Feeling like King Tut

When I'm fresh with a clean cut

It's only right that I'm blinged up

So I step with a mean strut

When the cops come

I don't freeze up

Y'all thinking religions'll fight to save us

Y'all better off reading The Isis Papers

Shout out to Frances Cress Welsing

Reading her writings

Are what's helping

To see what I needed to see

Needed to know

And yo

It's deep as reading a scroll

Placed inside of a tomb

That's gleaming in gold

Is you peeping the flow

Snacking on fruits

Trying to get back to my roots

Before we was clapping a deuce

I'm asking for truth

Don't ask me what happened to me

Homie what happened to you