White Man's Burden Songtext

von Promoe

(growin up in a world of hatred, a world of self-hatred; starvation, of self-starvation; control, self-control; obsession, alright...)

I grew up on some hardcore rap shit battle, spit,
Back to back - fuck the wack shit
It was all gangsta rap and political black power
Once a week I taped radio's rap hour
Way before I thought about a hidden agenda
I was hatin my white skin and hatin my gender
Didn't wanna represent rapists and murderers
The white man's burden is
Not what you heard it is
It ain't about a mission
To christian the heathens
But it's connected to that vision
Of us as superior beings
And the world's darkest history
His story is my story
It ain't no mystery
Why our children seeking chemical relief
Infected by our parents' old cynical beliefs
Inherited like a genetical disease
Somebody help me please
Man I wanna be released!

Chorus: (x2)
I can't carry the weight
I can't bear the burden
My heritage's too heavy for my shoulders
Can't burry the hate
It bubble up to the surface
And history repeat itself all over

Now listen...

Man I grew up in a little ass middle class town
In the middle of nowhere,
Bitter and so scared
And just like everybody else I was hiding it well
Some couldn't keep it inside,
Well they were either in jail
Or searching for life in the bottles and pills
Some tried, then commited suicide when it failed
Coz when the black cloud's filling your lungs
You don't need to speak german to know the meaning of angst
The hate, the blame,
The razor blades
The sedatives
Are your only relatives
We take the blame for the grave mistakes
And we cannot live with our lonely heritage
And you might feel like I ain't grateful
Thinkin I'm bitchin
Coz I supposedly got it all
But my skin is like itchin
And as the bread of sorrow fills my belly
I chew and swallow, but still feel empty
Coz...

Chorus (x2)

As our children growin up in a white supremacy
I ain't waiting for the backlash I fight the legacy
Coz it seems like they got another wolf-owitz
For wolf-ensohn and both of which
Are from the wolf pack tuggin at our rear
Together with the hawks, eagle, dragon and the bear
Slightly changed terminology
But the same old philosophy
This time their atrocity's
In the name of democracy
For the savages that haven't yet acquired the wisdom
Then I stop - think, who am I in this system?
It fucks me up when I'm thinkin it through
Then I cheer up coz I'm thinkin of you
And if you can love me, I can love me we
Can change, we can fight the ugly
And you gave me these...
I hear your words when I speak
Coz you ease
And you share my burden

Chorus 2: (x2)
And I can carry the weight
When we share the burden
Ain't nothing that's too heavy for my shoulders
We can conquer the hate
We bring it up to the surface
And listen to what history done told us (x2)