Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost) (Explicit) - Run The Jewels/Tunde Adebimpe

You walk into this room at your own risk

Because it leads to the future

Not a future that will be but one that might be

This is not a new world

It is simply an extension of what began in the old one

Conversing with a ghost conversing with a ghost

He just leaving and he screamin' Jesus

He had the highest hopes he had the highest hopes

People yelling screamin' at polices

Riots tonight riots tonight

Burnin' lootin' shootin' takin' thievin'

Fire and light fire and light

Fill the air and most don't know the reason

Never knew his name never knew his name

But they know his problems and feel his pain

Sh*t's still the same sh*t's still the same

We just prey off in they deadly game

It'll never change it'll never change

Too much profit in it and it stay the same

The facts still remain the facts still remain

You can burn the system and start again

Spoke with a ghost

Late night same night

God let me sleep please I'm begging you

Said don't be afraid

Daylight might never break right again once they get at you

Said you'll never be alone again

This house is haunted by pain transposed into revenue

The murdered all stay

That thing when your mind says run but your heart isn't letting you

Said we got an army now

You strike 'em down still they live inside hearts hearts carry them

The weapon is our memory

Some get to count sheep some gotta count kids that they burying

I don't wanna scare nobody

Fears been law for so long that rage feels like therapy

But I'm gonna make 'em remember me

Nobody gets no more sleep till we teach them remembering

Thieves

Thieves

Coming live at five we got new news breaking

You heard here first if you don't die waiting

Hard to review the scene I just seen

I'ma try to convey but it defies explaining

Started with folks just crying

Nothing but broken heart sobs and the shriek of the sirens

Right at the spot where the blood's still drying

Then my god I saw it the dead began rising

I don't know much about science

But I seen an army of armed men stop and get quiet

Mist hung low like a prayer from a tyrant

Sky became black like the stars aren't aligning

So many years of this violence

Now we're surrounded by the souls of the dead and defiant

Saying look what you've done you designed it

When the bough breaks hear the wraith scream riot

No more moms and dads crying

No more arms in the air

We put firearms in the air

Molotov cocktails thrown in the air

Can got dummy don on the air

Talking 'bout he smell that *** in the air

Dummy don't know and dummy don't care

Get that punk motherf**ker outta here

Aye ghosts are walking

Ghosts are talking

Everything gon' be different mane

Shh karma's coming

Ain't no runnin'

Death gon' deal with the guilty mane

The universe curses the killers mane

Can't keep killin' god's children mane

A pound of flesh is what you owe

Your debt is due give up your ghost

Thieves

Thieves

Thieves

What have you done

What have you done

What have you done

What are you making us do

Thieves

It's on you

It's on you

Thieves

It's on you

It's on you

It's on you

Thieves

I think America must see

That riots do not develop out of thin air

Certain conditions continue to exist in our society

Which must be condemned as vigorously

As we condemn riots but in the final analysis

A riot is the language of the unheard

Thieves