Until We Meet Again - Rittz

Another school shooting just occurred today

Thinking what on earth could make somebody run up in a school

or a church and take innocent lives away based on a person’s race

Little school kids stripped of their vertebrae’s

Fake rumors start to circulate, they beat his ass on camera,

cause they heard he’s gay, the youtube views almost up at 30k

The internet got a social life we impersonate

The lip sticks but never lost the beat one

And not that we failed

The world don’t need male role models

Wish you knew your pops but he gone

And mom don’t keep up, she got two jobs

Don’t like stress, working for her children

She will work while her teenager daughter in the room with a dude and she

twerking while filming

Hurt somebody’s feelings

Shit all we do online is diss and talk bad and we bash total strangers

Hope’s endangered

Glad to see my homie has made it back from Iraq

But his limbs are torn up, his friends got blown up

Enlisted as a kid, ever since they grown up

They been through so much, disposed to death in combat

How the fuck you come back and adapt?

My homie just got Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

I’m praying every day hoping he gonna beat it

Strong motherfucker on the phone with me

Telling me jokes while he’s going through his chemo treatment

And he didn’t put one sad story on his timeline

Instagram or Facebook ain’t always real life

People staring at their phones so much that they forget to look up and see the

skyline

Thinking that they Einstein cause they word their clever posters

Just a flash in a tiny attention span

Music is chewed up like fast food and spewed out

Like «I'm new with a menu plan»

I can’t hear shit.

So sad but he gladly can die

My lyrics a million mirrors to the tears in my eyes

I’ve done my best to share my life

My privacy’s been sacrificed

But now we’ve reached the end

Until we meet again

I put my soul in every word

I’ve shared my pain until it hurts

But now we’ve reached the end

Until we meet again

Ah yeah

Woke up and I checked what’s on this morning

A cop just shot and killed a black kid

It was all recorded

Just like the incident they put up two days before it

It’s become so normal that it sickens me

I know that I’m probably going to piss some people off listening

Because I’m white and I’m talking about some shit that we generally don’t go

through

But still I can’t ignore it

There’s so many people with power to walk it forward

The problem ain’t gonna solve itself

Half of the cases are unreported until it’s caught on someone’s cell

And this is not a diss to all law enforcement, we call on them to help out when

there is a threat

But I guess it’s because I’m white, if I was black I would be scared to death

When David Banner asked

«Where were all the white rappers at when Mike Brown got gunned down?»

I couldn’t think of any answers

I felt ashamed and afraid of the future

With no contribution or any helping hand to lend

I went to Kansas City

Shooting videos for my last album

And I could feel the tension

Another time of my life that I felt I was guilty for the color of my skin

Come three months later, I was back in Missouri

On tour the same night that the verdict was read

I was in shock, on Twitter venting

Then one of my fans tweeted that Mike Brown deserved it

I said, «Man, you dumb as fuck

Imagine you went to the store for blunts

And tried to run out the door with a pack

And the cops didn’t bother arresting you

Or give you a lecture

But instead they just murdered you dead and this shit ain’t right!»

I’ve done my best to share my life

My privacy’s been sacrificed

But now we’ve reached the end

Until we meet again

I put my soul in every word

I’ve shared my pain until it hurts

But now we’ve reached the end

Until we meet again

Ah yeah.

We hold these truths to be self-evident

That all men are created equal

They are endowed by their creator

With certain unalienable rights

And among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

That to secure these rights

Governments are instituted among men

Deriving their powers from the consent of the governed

All men are born free and equal

And have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights

Among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and

liberties

That of acquiring, possessing, and protecting their property

And find that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness

We’ve taken too many steps forward to take this many back

We’ve taken too many steps forward to take this many back