Both Sides ft. PA Dre Lyrics

It's crazy

Cops is at us

Gotta watch your back from your own brother

Your girl nagging you

Kids stressing you

Just don't know which way to turn

Damn

Catching hell from both sides

Yeah

Don't know why

We gotta catch hell from both sides

Come on

Why we gotta catch hell from both sides

And they wonder why we don't cry

Cause we don't heal, so we don't feel

Yo

I'll be damned if they martyr me

Cause I challenge oppression they try deleting autonomy

Scream fuck your equality, you'd assume I'm thinking psychotically but

Being in line with tyrants ain't something I wanna see

Such divisive dichotomy, pushing poverty policies

Got authorities watching me

Why do prisons get privacy, huh

Powers that be don't want my folks to be free, uh

Politicians bare resemblance to Robert E. Lee, uh

Hyper capitalistic fascist elites got us crowding the streets

This revelations, peep the mark of the beast

I'll never offer defeat

And keep your solidarity if you ain't marching with me

This can't be the America that Martin thought it would be

So much pain I've inherited, I need this weight off of me

My legacy's imperative, they put that eraser on me

Tried to eradicate my impact

Time for some get back

Feeling like I'm

Catching hell from both sides

Black, white, wrong, right, got me wondering why, why

We gotta catch hell from both sides

Evil, good, suburban, hood, feeling misunderstood

Why we gotta catch hell from both sides

Father, mother, sister, brother, even my lover

And they wonder why we don't cry

Cause we don't heal

So we don't feel

Swear this life is so ill when you catch it from both sides

And they attacking from the back and the front

Smiling faces filled with hatred, they just label it love

If you don't fit the mold the goal is to convince you to change

But the Bible say I was fearfully and wonderfully made

When you in the world, streets is known to leave brothers cold

Old lady acting crazy, hard to turn a house into home

Said she forgives but don't forget because the hurts too deep

Wounds is blinding her from deciding when to be yo peace

Man I don't get it

They see us when we under duress

Even the closest kin will only tend to us as a threat

Damn

Just tread carefully and guard yo energy king

Trust your moment is coming as sure as the pendulum swings

But still we

Catching hell from both sides

Black, white, wrong, right, got me wondering why, why

We gotta catch hell from both sides

Evil, good, suburban, hood, feeling misunderstood

Why we gotta catch hell from both sides

Father, mother, sister, brother, even my lover

And they wonder why we don't cry

Cause we don't heal

So we don't feel

Swear this life is so ill when you catch it from both sides