How I Feel Lyrics - Shad

Well, I could never imagine the pain in the mother's hearts 

When life takes a turn for the worse 

And creates another canvas that will never be completed 

I'm a few degrees away and a thousand times defeated 

My energy's depleted but I want to stand and fight 

Swinging with the spirits that have traveled back and through the light 

I feel the tears and depression 

Fears and aggression 

Woven in society, from years of oppression 

The violence is normalized, silence is horrifying 

The truth is denied and the fact is that more are dying 

You don't have to tell how you feel 

Cause I can hear it in the cries 

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And it's hard to listen- but listen 

Cause it's much harder living it than listening to the hardships 

So the hearts conditioned to condition the air when the air that conditions keep cool 

But the more tears sometimes clear the vision [?] 

Now what I see been a long time coming 

The tribe running, rocking, reaching new peaks 

So that them young'uns can finally summit 

Climbing high above and then fly from it, up to the skies 

Over standing the corruption and the deconstructing the lies 

I've seen this country decline 

Try to keep discussions confined 

Hide the underside, over extract, and try to undermine 

Damn, but I still believe in the truth whether as an MC in the booth or a PhD in a suit 

Yo, when we yelling protest [?] feeling this peaceful 

We profess, we pro-testify the will of the people, tell them what they must know 

Turn it up loud, when we bust flows, not in hushed tones, speaking up, let the trust grow 

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Now, you ain't gotta tell me how you feel 

Cause I can see it in your eyes 

You don't gotta tell me that the pain is real 

Cause I can hear it in your cry 

Well, it's the type of heartbreak that takes more than tears and time to stitch up 

And heal wounds and heal the scars that leave behind 

A separation from the fam, segregation on the land 

It was all part of the plan and the blood is on your hands 

It's all divide and conquer, colonize the slaughter 

Stabbing at the heart through the backs of our grandfathers 

Now we see the daughters that are disappearing quickly 

See it through cracks while ignoring all the history 

Government's been scooping babies way before the 60's 

When you legalize abduction, you legalize the misery 

So now you see the mystery is really not too complicated 

Justice is unequally distributed, my observation 

Money to be made while the kids are steady [?] 

Splitting up a family has now become an occupation 

And it's been part of the Occupation 

Since residential schools enforced starvation 

It's a nation with racism 

Here since the start of it 

Hard to let go cause it's carved in the heart of it 

Relation to the land and our rise, we're a part of it 

Roots where I stand, I could never depart from it 

And you don't have to tell me how you feel 

Cause I can see it in your eyes 

And they don't have to prove to me that pain is real 

Cause I can hear it in their cries