I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Under your knee.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Let me speak.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Take off your knee.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
I have to speak—
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
To speak the truth.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Let my people go.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Set them free.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
A cry to my people.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
To wake them up.
Wake up!
Wake up!!
My people wake up!!!
I can’t breathe.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Off my neck!
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Too many are lost.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Speak up, speak up.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
Do not be silent.
Where there is love I am,
Where there is love there are no oppressed,
Where there is love there are no lies,
Where there is love there is no deceit,
Where there is love, my people breathe free.
I can’t breathe,
I can’t breathe,
My people wake up.
Nathaniel Baffoe-Mensah is a fourth-year student at PSOM who is taking a year out to pursue a Master’s in Public Health. Nathaniel can be reached by email at [email protected].
