DEAD PREZ - Dead Man's Shoes lyrics

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We been resistin', fighting back, since they kidnapped us on them boats.

Man, my people were illegal, like it this Cali that we smoke.

They put them boots on our backs until until you knelt or it was broke.

Rapin' sisters, make a mistress out'her, what were we to do?

Familiar faces on the dollar, they were slave owners too.

Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson - just to name a few.

Founding Fathers, but for who? Not for me, not for you.

Malcolm X said it's like chickens coming home to roost.

Secret meetings, Freedom teachings, rebel-slave point of view.

Some can run, some can shoot, some can burn, some can loot.

Sister-soldiers in the kitchen putting hot sauce in the soup.

Plantation catching fire, hang the master with his noose.

Chorus:

Wake up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Get up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Rise up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Bounce up you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Waking up early in the morning,

Giving thanks for this life, still I’m hungry,

Survival of the fittest, you know how we own it.

I'm a freedom fighter soldier in the army.

Wake up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Get up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Rise up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Bounce up you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Look, lick a shot for Sugar Minott

and two for Gregory Issac

Their music helped me to love,

It helped me to live, It helped me to fight back!

Forward Jah Jah army, no weapon formed against me can harm me. They tried to trade me Marcus Garvey for a ferrari.

But I'm a warrior. Trained to be a guardian. The world is our audience. I'ma sing a song called Redemption. The symptoms of 'isms schism that strike when they weak. But my brothers and sisters focus on just trying to eat. Ain't nobody got no time to join the fight to get free.

You the mentality.

That's the reality.

But be careful cause you know what it breeds - resistance,like George Jackson and Bungie Carter for instance.

Ask that brother in the hood on active duty who risks his life in Iraq WHERE UNCLE SAM TRIED TO SCREW ME.

Dead Prez. Not the movie, it's the life style. Yeah.

Freedom, justice, self-determination right now.

Chorus: (x2)

Wake up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Get up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Rise up, you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

Bounce up you’re walking in a dead man’s shoes!

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Thanks to madailui

Thanks to HollowSam for correcting these lyrics