So many years, they’re uncountablenWomen haven’t been able to reach their full potentialnBein kept by child bearing and domestic dutiesnWitches and bitches sewing stitches and buttonsnAlways doin somethingnWithout women we’d have nothingnSexual responsibilitiesnI cant believe we have our sanitynThe most profitable opportunities havenAlways been in the business of sellin our pussiesnNow we can both keep loose in the ropenBut we cant go to far or we chokenDomestic abuse and rape are more commonnThan porno tapesnThe religious faith still puts us in our placenAnd the media creates an unhealthynAnorexic societynThey’re not foolin menI know where they want me to benThis one thing I can see, yeahnThis one thing I can seennStrugglenBlack, brown, straight, gay or whitenWe all struggle in this thing we call lifenEven though we don’t agree, we shouldn’t fightnIts hard enough to stand up to the daily right (x2)nn“But what about me”nA black man in slaverynBloody skies clack clacknI wanna see but I cant seenRipped from my country and familynCouldn’t speak my languagenDiseases contagious, chained and beatnWorked in 100 degree heatnNo peacenAuction blocks nAn industry supported by copsnGetting knocked off quicker than cottonnThis box nPolitical talks leading to our freedom,nBut how free can we be in segregated schoolsnTreated like foolsnMississippi burnings, lynchings, and hangingsnKKKs raging wars nOn Martin and Malcolm fighting harder than Muhammad AlinSituation really fucking shittynNow we in 0-3 with no political powernStaring at the projectsnTowers, no pretty flowers, just bloody showersnUh, so dontcha dare call me a cowardnnStrugglenBlack, brown, straight, gay or whitenWe all struggle in this thing we call lifenEven though we don’t agree, we shouldn’t fightnIts hard enough to stand up to the daily right (x2)nnBut what about the gays enslaved in the Holocaust daysnPink and black triangles paved the waynThey tagged us as faggotsnTreated us like maggotsnSwept us away with the rest of the assnWheres my history class?nTrapped in closetsnIf we came out, hated by societynMinorities, even by our own familiesnDamn its crazynThat a few of the brave threw stones to show their ragenIn this new age nAmericans say “faggot” and “dyke” as often as they say likenOh my god, did you see that dognMatthew Shepherd, Tina Brandon, many others deadnIf we not dead, we fucked in the headnMy bed has becomenThe most popular political forumnCliques of old DurhamnCreates ideas of gendernIm offendernPeople say we can passnBut its that same concept that keeps us oppressednIt’s a test everdaynNot to be a messnIm trying to do my bestnBut its really fucking hard to be gaynThat’s all I got to saynBut we all struggle in our own waynSonnStrugglenBlack, brown, straight, gay or whitenWe all struggle in this thing we call lifenEven though we don’t agree, we shouldn’t fightnIts hard enough to stand up to the daily right (x4)